Adobe Acrobat Standard Stops Working after Update

I have Windows 7. I purchased Adobe Design Standard including Adobe Acrobat Pro. It worked for a while, then one update, it stopped working. If I click on a PDF, nothing happens. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and then it works, then it will randomly stop working again (I believe after updates) and I keep having to uninstall and reinstall that program to get it to work, which is a real pain. Why is this happening? For such an expensive piece of software, I'm getting quite irritated with this and hope I can find a solution.

Instead of reinstalling, just do a repair. When the PDF does not open you are assuming Acrobat is at fault rather than something being messed up in your OS. First, open Acrobat from the start menu (I have no idea what OS you are using). The from the file menu open a PDF. I assume this works.
Next try to right click on the PDF and select Open With, selecting Acrobat. If it opens then, then the problem is that your file associations are getting messed up -- probably by another program or you OS system updates.

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