Pdf opens in acrobat instead of downloading

See pictures to show defaults all set correctly. This is an as designed behviour. If you are an Acrobat subscriber and the application is installed on the same machine, the PDF will open in Acrobat by default even Reader is set as default program to open PDF. I've had both installed for over a year and switched the default program to Adobe Reader for just as long. It's always opened in Reader by default and opened in Acrobat when I choose to until about a week ago.

Something has changed. The other user who doesn't have Acrobat on his profile but has Reader has the same issue only it tries to open files in Adobe Acrobat without it even being installed and it gives him an error message. Something has changed in the past week which I could only figure was an update of some kind, either by Adobe or Windows. There is a solution here. Which doesn't work. Welcome to the Community!

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