My question is if the app doesn't even open while it's in protected mode, why have protected mode? Finally when I made one of those choices, it opened. The other two choices are open without protected mode either one time or all the time. One is to continue in protected mode and if I leave that option checked, again, nothing happens. I get another window and it then gives me three options. I choose to run it with protected mode off. I leave it in protected mode and nothing happens as before. I say yes and finally, I get a box that says it can't be opened because it's running in protected mode. The same result happens when I try to open Adobe Reader with the start menu.īut finally, when I go to the application in Windows Explorer, right click and choose run as administrator, I get the Window that asks me if I want to allow the app to make changes. The same result happens when I double-click to open the Adobe Reader application in program files.

The same result happens when I right-click the pdf file and choose Adobe to open it. Nothing opens, no error code appears, and absolutely nothing happens. When I double-click on a PDF file, NOTHING happens except the system working icon flashes for a second, then nothing. I think I finally figured it out, but in answer to your questions: If you come to any problem during this, please post a screenshot of the error(s) you see. If you come to this point, all of Acrobat is working as it should and the rest is accessory. If it does not open, we need to get the error message. If it opens, Acrobat is working as it should. Go to File -> open, and look for a PDF file. I assume Acrobat started and is showing the starting screen. Resolution of that will depend on the error message you get. If it start not, you have a basic problem with Acrobat. When Acrobat started, Acrobat is basically working on your computer. Whe the Acrobat program icon appears, click that.Click the 'Start' button and type Acrobat (I assume it still works like in Windows 10).To get to the buttom of the problem, you need first to work the core functionality of the program, and this the 'good old way'. Also the browser you use is irrelevant to Acrobat in it's core functionality. It doesn't work now.īy is a function of the OS and has basically nothing to do with Acrobat.

The double-clicking the pdf always worked in past.

I was trying to double-click a pdf file and right-clicking the pdf file to open with Adobe Acrobat.

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