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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Every file in Windows has an extension (for example Word files have an extension of DOC, a web file has an extension of HTM or HTML and so on).
Adobe Acrobat files have an extension of PDF.
Windows has a list of all the common extensions and what program to use to open them. So if you double click on a Word (DOC) file it knows to use Word to open it.
It sounds as though somehow some of the file extensions on your PC have been set to open Acrobat, even if they are not PDF.
You can check this as follows:
On the Start Menu select Settings, then Control Panel. The Control Panel Window opens.
Double Click on Folder Options and on the Folder Options window choose File Types tab.
The window shows a list of all the file types on your PC, and what will be used to open them. You can select one of the icons, say HTML Document, and the bottom of the window will tell you what is used to open it.
If it is wrong you can press the Change button to change it to something else.
You can use this method to reset all the extensions that are wrong.
Another way to correct the file extensions is as follows.
Find a file you KNOW has the wrong icon, say a Word document (DOC).
RIGHT CLICK on the icon, and from the menu chose Open With, then the Choose Program option.
This should give you a list of program that could be used to open the file.
Chose one from the list (or use Browse to find the program that opens it), and then MAKE SURE you select the option 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file'.
Press OK and the file should open.
More importantly the extension will now be linked to that program so the correct icon should be shown for all those type of objects .
You may need to do this with a number of your file types, but gradually the Adobe reader icons should be removed.
Your Windows set up may not show your extensions so you may have trouble finding them, so here is how to display them.
Open a folder containing some files. From the Tools menu select Folder Options.
Select the View tab and see the option 'Hide extensions for known file types'. It will probably have a tick in it.
Remove the tick and press OK, and now all the extensions for that folder are shown.
You need to do this for each folder, or you can do system wide in the Control Panel under Folder Options.
This will help you to identify the file extensions for your files.