Choosing Reader not Acrobat in IE

We are primary using Adobe Reader at our office, though a handful of people also have Acrobat installed. Normally it isn’t a problem, but when viewing a PDF file through Internet Explorer, it’s always Acrobat which is chosen as the viewer. Even though I have configured Windows to use Reader at program for opening PDF files.
The real problem is that on the computers where I have installed an older version of Acrobat (version 6) it’s something I have around from some of the scanners we are using. And on those computers, when opening a PDF file from a Web page, Adobe informs that we are using an old version, and that we should upgrade to version 7 or 8.
It’s not in the budget right now to upgrade our old licenses and all I really want is to force Internet Explorer to open PDF files using Adobe Reader and not Adobe Acrobat.
But how do I do that?
Edit> OS= Windows XP SP3
Under “edit” => “settings” => “Internet” (I have a Danish version, not sure if it’s translated right) there are an option for viewing in the browser or not.
I have tried to uncheck that option in Acrobat and have it checked in Reader, which should make the browser use Reader in the current window, but no, it opens in a new window, using Acrobat.
Any ideas?
I have read something about changing in the registry but have found anything that works.
- Poul

Thanks for your feedback.
I was hoping to have both versions on the same computer, but if that's not recommended then that’s that.
I’ll just have to plan for upgrading our older versions of Acrobat to comply with the demands of our office.
- Poul

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