Adobe Reader 10.1.9 acting up

When I try to open a PDF document I get this message 'Problem with Adobe Reader, if it is running exit and try again 0:104'. If I exit and try again I get the same message.
I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall but get an erro message there also.'Error 1316 A network error occured while attempting to read from the file: C:\windows\installer\acro read.msi'. I can't uninstall.
Need some help here.

You can try using this tool to first remove all traces of Reader from your computer:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/acrobatcleaner.html
Then, you can download the full offline Reader installer from
http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
After downloading, restart your computer and run the installer before doing anything else.

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