Restoring Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7

Hello there I had Acrobat Reader 9 installed on my windows 7. It worked perfectly and showed the thumbnail previews for the files. Most of the time I select the file looking at the thumbnail instead of the file name. But after the automatic updates from Adobe it upgraded the Acrobat reader to 9.2 then suddenly there were no thumbnail previews in the windows explorer. Instead the icon attached in every file came. And also when I right click there is no open with Acrobat reader written instead it only shows open with.
So pls help me out with this its really frurstrating not able to see the thumbnail previews. This has also happened in the past even if I uninstall it and reinstall the thing wont work. Pls give me a solution.

I am having the same problem with Windows Vista.

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