Acrobat Reader issue

[Rick]

Whenever I activate a PDF link within IE, it loads in
reader version 4.0 even though I have installed the
latest version (6.x) of Acrobat Reader. I have the full
version of Acrobat 4.0 installed for other reasons. Any
idea how I can force IE to use the latest version of
Reader?

Also, once a PDF is opened and I close it, it totally
shuts down IE including any other windows of it that are
open.

Thoughts/suggestions muchly appreciated.

Thnx.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Whenever I activate a PDF link within IE, it loads in
reader version 4.0 even though I have installed the
latest version (6.x) of Acrobat Reader. I have the full
version of Acrobat 4.0 installed for other reasons. Any
idea how I can force IE to use the latest version of
Reader?

Also, once a PDF is opened and I close it, it totally
shuts down IE including any other windows of it that are
open.

Thoughts/suggestions muchly appreciated.

Thnx.

Open Windows Explorer and click Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to Acrobat Reader files and change the association to point to
version 6.

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[Rick]

RE: Suggestion by Frank ...

Been there, done that. It only applies to files opened
through Windows Explorer, not to PDF links within IE.

Thanks

 

[Eric McG]

Try disabling the browser interface in v4 Preferences...you may then have to
enable the same feature in v6.

 

[Gary Smith]

Whenever I activate a PDF link within IE, it loads in
reader version 4.0 even though I have installed the
latest version (6.x) of Acrobat Reader. I have the full
version of Acrobat 4.0 installed for other reasons. Any
idea how I can force IE to use the latest version of
Reader?

In my experience, multiple versions of Adobe products will NOT play nicely
together. Even if you get the desired version to load, they will tromp
all over one another's settings. Before I gave up and removed Acrobat 4.0
from my system leaving just the reader, I had partial success with this
approach. It might work for you with some tinkering.

1. Remove both Acrobat and Reader and remove all related entries from the
registry.
2. Install Acrobat. If necessary, configure it not to work with the
browser.
3. Go to Folder Options | File Types, select PDF and click Advanced.
Select Open, click the Edit button, and rename "Open" to "Edit" (or the
verb of your choice). Click OK until everything goes away.
4. Install Reader. Configure it to work with the browser.
5. Return to PDF in Folder Options. The Edit action should still be
there, pointing to Adobe 4. There should be a new Open action pointing to
Reader 6. Make sure this is set as the default.

This SHOULD open Reader when you double-click on a PDF file or click on a
link to a PDF file and give you an Edit action on the .pdf context menu
that will open Acrobat 4. Then again, this is Adobe we're talking about,
so it could do something entirely different.