IE 5.5 crashes when opening PDF files

[Hargreavesk]

Does anyone know why it would do this?

It will open some but not others. I have checked the size of the files but they are not really big. The error is a memory error but I have 384mb in the PC. Is there anything else I may be missing?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Kate

 

[joegz]

What version of Acrobat Reader are you using? IE uses an ActiveX Control called pdf.ocx to open PDF files within the browser. Where this setting is called from is deep within the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000}\InprocServer32

I noticed that Acrobat Reader 5 does not seem to update the path to the correct location of the ActiveX control file sometimes. But I don't know which version you are using.

If you don't want to mess with the registry you could try making a change in Acrobat Reader settings to not have PDF files open in the browser.
joegz
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