Cannot install Acrobat Reader with Acrobat Pro

This thread is redundant and should be closed or at least this comment pinned as the 'solution'. Adobe have provided an official solution to this that works and I use now across dozens of my clients (I am a senior network engineer and work for an MSP that deals with hundres of different clients and environments). Installing side-by-side does NOT work for most scenarios as suggested by multiple people/'Adobe employees' in this thread. 

Adobe's actual solution is to install the '64-bit Unified App Installer' and add the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown:“bIsSCReducedModeEnforcedEx”=dword:00000001

(This will default Acrobat to run in 'Reader mode' by default but automatically enable full Acrobat features when signing in)

All described in this article here:

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/DesktopDeployment/singleinstaller.html

Can find installer from official location here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/au/acrobat/kb/download-64-bit-installer.html

To those that have this same issue, if you can get your hands on the following versions:

Adobe Acrobat May 2022 with

Acro Reader 220012017_en_US 

works, and then you can upgrade to latest versions as a workaround for now.

I was able to get around this today by installing pro in the normal way and then using our deploy software (PDQ Deploy - there is a free version) to deploy to the machine. In our case we need both on a Remote Desktop Server, some users need to use Acrobat some just Reader.

Please vote for this feature request: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/44794654-installing-acrobat-pro-plus-acrobat-reader-is-a-ne

Is Adobe serious with not fixing this issue after at least one year of people complaining?

For me Acrobat Pro would not instal because it said, a more capable function was already installed. I hadn't realised the free reader had become more functionally useful. However, I use Acrobat Pro to scan documents to pdf. The supposedly more capable app can't interface with my scanner. I will now uninstall reader and hope to install Acrobat Pro.

There are work rounds but nowhere as efficient.

what might work for parallel installation: full offline installer of Acrobat Reader 32 bit from here: https://get.adobe.com/de/reader/otherversions/ 

I'm a home user on Windows 11 and have Adobe Acrobat PRO. My wife and I both share the same desktop computer and use Acrobat to digitally sign documents. In order for this to work, we have our own Adobe IDs and in the past I used to sign in to my PRO and she signed in on the Reader. But now since I can't install both, I've been forced to install the older Reader 11 to use for my wife to sign documents, but the signature can only be stored locally because Reader 11 doesn't support Adobe ID sign in. She can't digitally sign documents with my PRO version because, of course, her ID doesn't have the PRO license and it forces the application to close. I'm furious about this and considering switching to an alternate PDF program

"Please share your feedback to the engineering team using the link..."

Done: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/44794654-installing-acrobat-pro-plus-acrobat-reader-is-a-ne

Amal., this absurd situation offers me only one possibility to test and guarantee the correct functioning of the PDF forms I sell with Acrobat Reader: create them with Foxit Phantom or with PDF Studio Pro...

I can't believe that this is intentional, I also find it hard to believe that developers are so ignorant of how their software is used.