Grey Blank Screen in IE ?

I have Reader XI installed. Whenever I try to open a pdf file in IE I just get to a blank grey screen. I cam open the pdf by right click "save target as", asve and then open the download whilst opening with protected mode disabled. What do I need to do to be able to open the pdf file directly?

What is the value of your registry in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe
It should point to the Reader exe with full install location.

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My iMac froze this morning. I powered down with the power button. When I fired it back up, a blank gray screen came up - originally with a folder icon with a flashing question mark - though that icon is now gone.
I tried to safe boot, nothing happened.
What's interesting is that when I power down, it turns off instantly.
Something like this actually happened about 4 months back - and my computer miraculously came back to life 3 days later (no ****.) I'm not really looking to test my luck again.
What can I do? Next step is to try booting from the OSX disk - but that didn't work last time, and I'm guessing it won't work this time.
Thanks! This *****!

Here is an Apple Advice letter that explains what to do when you get a Gray Screen on Startup.
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Hi,
After upgrading to the latest version of Tilda, I get a grey blank screen instead of the console when opening it.
Downgrading solves the problem (of course). I tried using it with and without xcompmgr and on different computers (nvidia drivers and intel video drivers) and have the same issue.
Apparently some people had similar trouble six years ago (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/144175), but their solution (disabling animated pulldown) does not work.
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Last edited by Tesbed (2013-08-10 09:57:21)

Then I don't know. Which WM/DE do you use? I use Xfce with compositing enabled. Here is my ~/.config/tilda/config_0, try if you get the error with this configuration. Maybe we’ll manage to find another buggy option.
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[What to do if you can't send or receive Mail|http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2770]

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