How can i modify my default PDF viewer in regard to browsing internet documents? currently set to acrobat?

ive looked through google and so far the solutions i have read havent been working. currently IE7 is unable to open any PDF documents because acrobat is screwing things up for whatever reason. i want to simply change the pdf viewer to ADOBE READER. i was able to quite easily do this with FIREFOX but IE is a different story.



from what ive gathered, i should be going to Control panel/ folder options/ select pdf/ choose advanced/ choose open/ change directory to READER.exe



when i do that, click OK and close all the dialogs it switches the settings back to opening with ACROBAT.



quite annoying.



any solutions ?How can i modify my default PDF viewer in regard to browsing internet documents? currently set to acrobat?
i'd say uninstall it and get Foxit Reader

google it, it's free and it loads quite fast because of low memory resource that it takesHow can i modify my default PDF viewer in regard to browsing internet documents? currently set to acrobat?
I would recommend changing the registry key for opening PDF files. I've had to do that several times. Click Start %26gt; Run then type in regedit and click OK. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT %26gt; AcroExch.Document.x (where x is your adobe version) %26gt; Shell. Select the (Default) value, then go to Edit %26gt; Modify and change Open to Read, then click OK.



Now do the same for the value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE %26gt; Software %26gt; Classes %26gt; AcroExch.Document.x (again where x is your adobe version) %26gt; Shell. Change the (Default) value of Open to Read.



Now close the registry editor and restart your computer. (Must restart in order for registry changes to take effect.) You have now changed your default PDF program from Adobe Acrobat to Adobe Reader.