Adobe Reader Can not Open

The problem sometimes occur in my computer in my office. Our user use winxp operating system and the version of adobe reader is 11.0.It can not open, and show the message .
How can we solve the problem ? We have try to reinstall Adobe Reaer and Operating System , but we still can not solve the problem . Thank you.

Sorry, I just noticed that you are on Windows XP. XP is no longer supported by the latest Reader version.
Update to 11.0.08.

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