Description:
I received the message “Do you want to open or save xxx.pdf?” in Internet Explorer for any online PDF file when I tried to open it.
The reason why Microsoft cause this prompt to appear in Internet Explorer is because it prevents malicious applications, programs, etc from automatically downloading and running on a machine without any user intervention. So therefore, the logical question is… won’t disabling this become significant security risk which outweighs users clicking the Open button? Well, the good news is we are not actually disabling the prompt from appearing for all downloaded files, we are only going to be disabling the prompt for a certain file type – in our case PDF (.pdf) files.
Solution:
1:Launch Registry Editor (Start > Run > regedit.exe).
2:Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
3:If it doesn’t exist, create the AttachmentExecute key,then create the {0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} key.
4:If you are using Foxit Reader,please create a new String Value with the Name FoxitReader.FoxitReaderCtl.1.
If you are using Foxit PhantomPDF, please create a new String Value with the name FoxitPhantomPDF.FoxitPhantomCtrl.1.
5:Re-launch IE and test,it should be now working ok.
In addition to the above method, you could accomplish the same thing by doing the following if you don’t want to create registry key manually:
Unzip 'disableprompt.zip' this file to get a .reg file, double click on the downloaded disableprompt.reg file to import its values into your windows registry.
