Problem with PDF links opening IE, not PWB

[kajones]

Environ: Windows XP; PWB 2.09; SetBrowser set to PWB.exe as default; INI files centrally located on server.

When I click on the links inside this PDF document http://www.michigan.gov/documents/1st_E ... 5109_7.pdf
the workstation will open the new document in IE, not PWB. I'm using the SetBrowser program to set PWB as the default browser, but whenever I try to open new PDF's from within a PDF, it opens the document using IE instead of PWB.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

Keith.

[Scott]

Adobe seems insistant on opening Internet Explorer even with PWB set as the default web browser.

You can use the free utility on our download page called ManageIE to prevent Internet Explorer from opening.

There is currently a test version of ManageIE on our Beta page that will prevent IE from opening and open PWB instead.

--Scott

[kajones]

Well, to get around the problem, I changed the properties in Adobe Reader to not open PDF in the browser.
Here's how: Edit - Properties - Internet - Uncheck "Display PDF in browser".

Now when clicking on a PDF link, the document opens inside Adobe Reader.

[Philip - Long Beach NY]

Can you apply the same thing to Microsoft word? Sometimes I get patrons who find word documents posted on their business website (Excel too) and the file opens also in PWB. Do I have to go into Word and Excel and uncheck a similar setting like you did in Adobe Reader?

Thanks for the info Keith.

Phil

[kajones]

It turns out that I was using an old program (SetBrowser) to set the default browser to use PWB.exe. I downloaded the latest version from the Downloads section (SetPWB) and that allows me to set the program file path and the INI file path. The SetBrowser program only pointed to the program file.

Everything is right as rain again.

Keith.