Adobe refuses to work after updating

The fact the application doesn't work doesn't mean you lost any of your files, by the way.

They should still be available on your system, and/or on the cloud.

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this to us.

There's likely a chance that after installing the windows update, the application's files got corrupted. We'd try the following steps and see if it gets it back on track. 

1- Since it doesn't open at all, so use this cleaner tool for the removal the app and its old traces: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/cleaner.html 

2- Once done, download the Acrobat Reader setup from here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/ 

Let us know the result.

Thanks,

Akanchha