Keeping Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro as the Default .PDF viewer

Ok,
So with all the new vulnerabilities with Adobe reader, our company is try to stay with the current updates of Adobe Reader.  The problem I am running into with patching all the workstations is that we have a large user community that uses Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro as their default .pdf viewer etc. When patching all workstations with the latest Adobe Reader it changes the default to Reader.
Has anyone had this issues? Or is there away to keep Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro the default when upgrading the Reader?
I'm thinking of removing Reader all together on the workstations that have Pro.
Thanks
B

bjohnson0678 wrote:
I'm thinking of removing Reader all together on the workstations that have Pro.
Thanks
B
That is the Adobe recommended and supported setup.
Too many problems arise when you have those two Adobe products on the same machine.

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