Windows 10 "How do you want to open this file?" window keeps poping up

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This is an issue that affects mainly PDF files, although it occasionally appears with other file formats as well. It started some time ago with an update and is really irritating. Let's take it from the beginning: This is a Windows 10 system, with all the updates. Adobe Acrobat Reader is installed and is the default pdf viewer. Whenever I try to open a pdf file from the desktop or the explorer, the "How do you want to open this file?" window pops up. Now, Acrobat reader is the selected app for opening pdf files. This is true both when I look at the file associations in settings (choose default

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