Troubles with Windows after installing Acrobat X

I built a Windows 7 machine from scratch twice and ended up with the same issue. As soon as I install Adobe Acrobat X Standard, Windows Explorer freezes whenever I right-click on something in Windows Explorer (icon on desktop or inside folder). I disabled the Acrobat Shell Extension but still have other problems. I was unable to print anything to any of my printers. If I right-clicked on a printer, it would freeze up again. If I restarted the print spooler service, it resumed normal operation. The first time I upgraded to the latest update (10.1.13) and had the same problem. After the second reload, I left it at the default version 10.0.0. I have the same problem either way. I was able to remove all of the printers from Windows through registry and Windows System32 and recreated my printers. I also recreated the Adobe PDF printer per Adobe's instructions on their website. My initial tests proved successful. But when my user went to try it, the "Creating Adobe PDF" window came up and he got about 3 bars and it froze. I went in and tried printing some other PDFs, and it did create the files, but it would not let me delete the files. It indicated that Acrobat.exe still had the file locked. When I tried uninstalling Acrobat, it would stall part way through until I restarted the Print Spooler service. I have also tried disabling the AntiVirus (SEP).
I have spent way too many hours setting up this PC 3 different times and troubleshooting this. My gut says that there is a Windows update that may be interfering with this. But I don't know where to start. This worked fine on his previous machine (same version of all software.
I would appreciate any assistance. Surely someone else has run into this before. Thanks in advance.
Bill

Hi William ,
Please perform the following steps .
> Enable the hidden Admin Account on Windows 7 ( Ref : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-wi ndows-vista/ )
> Disable all Non-Microsoft Startup Services. (Ref : http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/disable-startup-items-services-windows.html )
> Disable all the Antivirus softwares like CA, Norton,Mc Afee etc. temporarily from the computer.
Reboot and try installing in the new enabled Admin user account and check
Regards
Sukrit Dhingra

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