Acrobat Reader crashing after 10 sec of opening file

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This one solved this issue for me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BUnIIJwwIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BUnIIJwwI

I have given up with Acrobe DC. 1) it does not appear in the windows list of programmes 2)it keep sutting (while I am shouting) within few seconds. 

Likely I found out that Microsof Edge open the PDF and it's stable too so I have set MS edge as default opener of PDF files and forget about Adobe. 

Bye

Mine was closing before I could even click the "Edit" button but I found a different fix

The fix for me was to go to "Add or Remove Programs", select Adobe, select "Modify". Follow the prompts and it fixed the issue for me

The response from them is to select preferences etc yet the application shuts down within 2 seconds and cannot click anywhere to change preferences. Literally unusable! 

Only adobe would tell you the fix to Adobe shutting down after 10 seconds is to wait for Adobe to load and then adjust your settings.

I tried multiple things. I notice on my second monitor that an Adobe window would open momenterrialy then close with the PDF that I had opened. It only lasted for a few seconds. After opening Acrobat from the start menu this window opened up in front of the Acrobat window. I hovered my mouse over it and it then disclosed and a Acrobat Use Policy update and when I agreed to it I no longer had the issue.

Try switching to the Adobe Acrobat extension for chrome. You'll have to open an account on Adobe, but it's quite useful to open PDFs.

here's what worked for me tonight.  i setup a new computer for a customer. she uses adobe xi, which i installed from her legit cd. when i ran it to test it shut down in 10 seconds. and it kept shutting down whenver i ran it. this is what fixed it.

1. DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET

2. start acrobat

3. CONNECT TO INTERNET

4. in acrobat click Help>Check For Updates

5 the product will update and will/has worked every time since the update

no other changes were made to windows 10.

This worked (For Acrobat X):  I had same problem with program closing after a few seconds.  I then read through this forum and tried this winner:  Open Acrobat then (quickly!) Go to Help/Check for Updates...  A second screen opens up just about the time the program closes...but second screen remains and asks to verify installation of update.  Ran the update, it corrected whatever registry problems there were... and wha la!  The next time I opened Acrobat, it stayed open.   I hope this works for anyone else experiencing this awful glitch.