Pdf file on website won't print now. Settings?

I've not had any problems, until now, printing pdf files from many websites. However, problems have come up.
I am told I had a virus affecting some of my accounts and Systweak Advanced Systems Optimizer, my protection sofware provider, adamantly denies a virus. Anyway, they made some changes in some settings and I wonder if they may have interfered with Adobe Reader (Latest version installed.)
It seems to affect multiple websites, at least three different ones just now.
Anyway, where do I start?
Oldern

Many thanks to Olderns for spending time with us and giving us remote access to his machine to debug this problem. This turned out to be a registry setting related to IE...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\TabProcGrowth = 0
This is a setting was introduced with IE8 to control how many tab processes were created. IE8 has a default algorithm (when the registry key is not present) that limits the number of tab processes based on available RAM. Separate tab processes arecreated in order to sandbox 3rd extensions, i.e. to isolate them from the main IE process and other extensions, but IE8 does not create a process per tab as IE10 does because of performance considerations that were more relevant in the IE8 timeframe. IE8 also has a 32-bit parent IE process while IE10 has a 64-bit parent process.
So, while it made some sense to tell IE8 to not create any tab processes and run everything in the parent, this does not work well in IE10 which always has a 64-bit parent process (even if you run the 32-bit version) and therefore cannot load 32-bit extensions, Reader in this case.
While we don't know how this situation came about on the user's system, we suspect that it was either caused by a virus or by a system performance tool that might have made this change to try to make IE faster, something that might have made sense for IE8 but not for IE10.
If you encounter this problem, the solution is to remove the afformentioned registry setting and then close all IE processes and restart IE. However, only make this if you are comfortable using regedit to change registry settings because some registry settings (not this one) can create serious problems on a Windows system including causing it to no longer boot. Also, I would highly recommend creating a restore point before making any changes to your registry. Do this in the System control panel > Advanced System Settings > System Protection > Create... This will give you something that works to go back to if you somehow make a fatal change to your registry.

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