Right Click Printing in Adobe Reader X

Using Windows XP and Adobe Reader X I am having some printing issues. For example, I open My Documents folder and right click on the PDF i want to print, without opening the file in Adobe Reader first and then clicking print, then I open my next file within the same folder and print that one the same way. With the new Adobe Reader X, I right click it prints the first document however it appears as though Reader stays open then when I go to do the second document it doesn't allow the program to print until I close Reader (which was opened by the first document I printed) is closed. Once closed it opens Reader again and then leave it open until I phyiscally close it. In prior versions when I would print it would close reader - I have tested the issue on another users machine and it works fine however on my machine it does not.
Is they an option in Adobe Reader X i need to turn on or off, to get the function of printing by right clicking on the PDF file without having to physically open and close Reader X to print?

I anwswered my own question because it appears as this thing isn't monitored or people don't want to help you out in a timely fashion.
Click Edit>Preferences and remove the check from the Enable Protected Mode at Startup in the General Tab. This should fix the issue

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Hi thanks for your response, yes it seems this API is availalbe but there are no examples of how to use it. You mentioned its available in Adobe reader and Adobe Acrobat plugins. Well I'm using the Adobe Reader Active X Browser Plugin so how would I use this API to restrict the Browser plugin.l
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