My preview pane has stopped displaying .pdf files

Hi i am running windows 7 professional and have adobe acrobat installed. I have recently notices that the preview pane in windows no longer shows a .pdf file, does anyone have a fix?

It may be a windows feature that needs to be fixed. The downside of the preview is that MS reports to Acrobat that the file is open and does not allow save, only save as.

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