Might be security issues in version 7 that does meet the level of security
requirements in Vista why its not working. 8.1 is nice though, also works on
Vista x64.
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Andre
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Oppie" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Vista Home Basic, IE7
>
> Had been using Acrobat reader 7 without any problems until this evening
> (Widows updates installed this morning). I could open a PDF that was
> already
> on my machine without problem but when trying to view a pdf from the web,
> I
> get a couple of messages that it could not find external handler. A quick
> work-around is to right click on the link and 'save target as' - then you
> can manually open the file with acrobat 7.
>
> Tried to reinstall Reader 7 without any improvement.
>
> Uninstalled reader 7 and went to Adobe to get a fresh copy of the reader.
> Hmmm, the only reader supported for Vista evidently is reader 8. With
> Vista,
> it won't even let you try to get version 7.
>
> Install reader 8 and all good again.
>
>
> Acrobat reader 8 has a different look and feel that will take a bit of use
> to get accustomed to (but then, so did Vista)
>
> Installed updates listed in attachment.
>