Sometimes when the Acrobat Reader MSIE plugin loads a PDF file MSIE will announce "Done" but the screen remains blank. This problem seems to be a browser problem and not an Acrobat problem. This does seem to be a problem specific to MSIE. Mozilla Firefox does not seem to have the same issue. Browser addins designed to block malicious web-site content may also prevent PDF files from displaying properly, regardless of the browser being used.

A simple"solution" is to right-click on the link to the PDF and choose "Save target as" (MSIE) or "Save link as "(Firefox) to download the PDF files you are interested in and then view them later by using Acrobat as an application rather than as a plug-in.

A "permanent solution" is to disconnect the Acrobat Reader plugin and to configure your browser to run Acrobat Reader as a helper application rather than as a plugin. To do this in Acrobat Reader v7 first shutdown Internet Explorer. Then start up Acrobat reader and from the menu bar select

Edit / Preferences / Internet

and uncheck "Display PDF in browser". Acrobat will then reconfigure itself and may ask for a system reboot. Afterwards, the first time you select a PDF file in MSIE you will encounter a dialog box. In the dialog box select "Open this file from its current location," and check "Don't ask me again for files of this type" (or whatever the exact wording is). Next time you access a PDF file in MSIE it will be displayed in a separate Window without any nuisance dialog box opening.