PDF Preview, Win7 64-bit Explorer

Hi
Does anyone have a solution to the problem of not being able to view the content of PDFs in Large or Extra Large mode on a Windows 7 (Enterprise SP1) 64-bit system? I've tried installing Reader 10.0.0, 10.1.4, and 11 - all result in displaying the default PDF icon.
I regularly have thousands of files to review, JPG and TIF work fine in this mode so why not PDF? I've researched elsewhere and there's a solution that involves changing a registry setting - I think it was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC1 93}. But my system already had the value that the solution was recommending
And there was another one that suggested deleting registry keys (I think HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7) and Repairing the Reader installation - but that didn't work either
Any ideas out there?
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