Trouble deleting PDF files

I purchased Acrobat X1 Standard recently which worked perfectly. Then I upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1 recently. Not sure if Op-System caused problem, but now.... when I try to delete a PDF file, dialog box says 'file is open in another program" and I have to click 'try again' 5-6 times in order to delete a file. The file is not open in another program that I can see. Help!!!

In some cases, Acrobat has not been completely closed and is still registering the file. Not sure if this is a fault of Acrobat or the OS, but if it was not happening in the Win8, then it sounds that at least the OS has created a problem.

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