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I uninstalled Adobe acrobat XI Standard because we started getting error 16 after opening a pdf file, then reinstalled it and still getting the same message error 16. I have followed the troubleshooting for c:\programdata\adobe and did all steps on the 2 folders mentioned restarted the computer and made no difference. I have adobe reader on that pc and it works fine, only acrobat is giving trouble, please advise.