To stop PDF’s opening in Internet Explorer and use Adobe Reader instead follow the steps below.
Click the Tools (Cog Wheel) icon in Internet Explorer and select Manage Add-ons
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In the right hand pane look for Adobe PDF Reader. Generally it will not be shown as in the example below.
Aug 17, 2015 Click on the ‘Edit’ menu then ‘Preferences’ Click on ‘General’ on the side bar Click on the button ‘Select Default PDF Handler’. Click on the drop down box and select ‘Adobe Reader ’. Jul 20, 2018 Fix: Cannot Open PDF files error in Internet Explorer The versions of Internet explorer that are released before the internet explorer 8 version are more likely to take time while loading the PDF files. If you are getting the Error ‘Internet Explorer has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Hi, Adobe Acrobat can let you edit, secure and markup PDFs but not viewing PDF files. To view PDF, you need a PDF viewer like Adobe Reader. To explain why once the file opened in internet explore failed to display, windows 7 already implemented an 'internet reader' which is meant to compete with Adobe. Just not pdfs opened in Internet Explorer. We have discovered the issue that it is related to, namely if we make the website the pdf lives on a 'trusted site', she is able to print it. Unfortunately, if the website does not start with https, but rather with http, you can't make it a trusted site, so it does not completely solve the problem.
Now click the Currently loaded add-ons dropdown and select All add-ons then try Run without permission. Adobe reader with be listed in the right hand pane in one of these selections.
Select Adobe PDF Reader and then click Disable located bottom right.
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Now reopen the PDF and it will be displayed in Adobe Reader rather than Internet Explorer.