Adobe Reader won't download and PDFs won't open

All of a sudden I cannot open PDFs, so I have tried to download Adobe Reader XI and it gets to 78% then fails. It will not give me a reason for the failed installation, and when I try to open PDFs I get a message that says "Acrobat failed to load its core DLL." Now I cannot open PDFs, and I feel like I have tried everything to correct the problem - I tried on chrome, IE, and Firefox, I enabled JavaScript, I don't have virus scanners blocking it, and I am at a loss of what to do. Help!

adobe installation issue wrote:
"Acrobat failed to load its core DLL."
See http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/reader-core-dll-error.html
As for the failing download, try the offline installer from http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

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