All icons change to acrobat

Once I install acrobat all the icons of my desktop change to acrobat icon (navigators and all the programs). The problem is that it seems that acrobat becomes the pre-selectec program to open all types of documents and programs so I cannot access to them. I can solve the problem uninstalling acrobat program but then I cannot open pdf files.

Hi monanagore,
You can change the "default programs" under control panel(if you are a Windows user) for all application.
Hope that helps.
~Moving the discussion to Acrobat Forum, for more insight.
Regards,
Anit Kumar

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