Remove Adobe via Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs. Then :

Download Adobe 7.0.5 here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Or, download Adobe 7.0 here and then upgrade to 7.0.5. The option to upgrade
will be available after the installation:
http://www.download.com/3000-2378-10000062.html
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"JMF" <jfavaro@tin.it> wrote in message
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>I have IE 6 and XP Home, with all the latest updates, etc.
>
> I have Acrobat 5 installed.
>
> When I click on a link to a PDF file, it downloads the file just like it
> should, starts Acrobat 5 just like it should, and when everything is all
> set ... it all just stops. Nothing is displayed. It doesn't continue. The
> odd thing is that it doesn't claim that Acrobat is "not responding" or
> that sort of thing. It even says "Done" in the lower left hand corner like
> it should. But it doesn't display. It just stops.
>
> (By the way: when I right-click on a PDF link and say "save target to
> file" it works fine, saving the PDF somewhere on my computer to be opened
> later by Acrobat. I'm only talking about clicking directly on the link to
> have Acrobat open directly.)
>
> This problem didn't happen with Acrobat 4, so I'm thinking it might be an
> Acrobat 5 thing.
>
> So a couple of questions:
>
> 1) anybody seen this phenomenon and know what to do about it?
>
> 2) is there a way to tell IE to use Acrobat Reader instead of Acrobat in
> this case? It might solve the problem, and in any case I'd be curious to
> know how to tell IE such a thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
>