Don't want Adobe Reader to open

Whenever I open an attached pdf in an email (Outlook, Office '07), only the Adobe Reader opens up. How do I have the full Adobe 9 Pro app. open?

Most Reader and Acrobat packages use some shared files that are not documented well. As a result, when you uninstall one, you break the other. That means you need to do either a repair or reinstall of the one left. Another option is to open Acrobat before you open Outlook, or at least before you start looking at attachments. Then it will default to Acrobat. You can also go in and remove Reader from the startup so it does not start the TSR portion of Reader. This is typically the AcroRD32 in the task list. You may also have to change some file associations.
The cleanest method is to uninstall Reader and repair Acrobat.

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