When we install Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, PDF-XChange Reader, or Brava! Reader; IE (Internet Explorer) will become a PDF reader, through ActiveX/COM technology (all of them install a respective ActiveX/COM Plug-In/Add-On for Internet Explorer; and some of them also install other ActiveX/COM controls/components in order to display thumbnails on explorer.exe/Windows Shell).
This "Embedded IE/ActiveX Methodology" is also used by other viewers providers, such as LizardTech Browser Plug-In (to view DJVU files), Microsoft Office Viewers (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, XPS), OpenOffice.org, AutoDesk AutoCAD (DXF/DWG), and others...
Some applications (classified as belonging to the "File Managers"/"File Viewers" categories) use this "Embedded IE/ActiveX Methodology" to view/display/show PDF's (for example, Total Commander with ieview.wlx plug-in; Xplorer2; PentaView); or DJVU's and so on...
Well, when we only need to install 1 app for each file type, everything is fine (for example, LizardTech = DJVU; no conflicts)...
However, my problem is that I need to install in the same machine/OS, 4 apps (Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, PDF-XChange Reader, and Brava! Reader), which try, each one of them, to be the default viewer embedded on IE... What a confusion! Conflictutation!... I have 4 ActiveX/COM DLL trying to defeat each other in order to be the ONE which is used inside IE... My question is - Can I manage this (choose/change/re-define which is the current active IE embedded viewer)???
Thanks in advance!
Best regards.
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