On February 17, 2026, the Acrobat Reader DC on my machine was automatically upgraded to release 2025.001.21223.

After the upgrade was finalized successfully, the Acrobat Reader DOES NOT start at all, reporting the following error:

The program can't start because api-ms0win-core-winrt-l1-1-0.dll
is missing from your computer.
Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

In previous release 2025.001.21184 from February 6, 2026, everything worked ok.

I am using Windows 7 SP1, with Acrobat Reader DC 32 bit.

Please correct this bug urgently !!!

Thanks a lot in advance !
Iudith Mentzel