How to set adobe acrobat as default instead of reader
- How to set adobe acrobat as default instead of reader pdf#
- How to set adobe acrobat as default instead of reader windows#
Impacted users are in different OU's, no other GPO's pushing default XML associations, are on different winver's: 1903 - 1909 - 2004 Ran a procmon at boot, but couldn't find an XML which sets another default association.Īlso the OEMdefaultassociations.xml in System32 does not contain an entry for PDF.Īdding manually does not resolve the issue.
How to set adobe acrobat as default instead of reader windows#
To the right, click ' Change ' and select ' Windows photo gallery '. Under the 'General' tab (which should be what is opened up first), youll see 'Opens with: Adobe Reader'.
How to set adobe acrobat as default instead of reader pdf#
Some of the impacted users are already on Edge chromium, a few are still on Edge legacy.įor the impacted users changing the Edge chromium setting: always open PDF externally gets them in a loop when downloading a PDF, clicking on open results in re-downloading the PDF.Īlso tried adding the NoOpenWith regkey in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppX4hxtad77fbk3jkkeerkrm0ze94wjf3s9, which is not resolving the issue. To change the default program for opening JPEGs: Right click on any. PDF in the file associations settings changes default to Adobe Reader DC, but only until next logoff/reboot, then it's back to Edge. Select Internet in the left pane of the preferences window, and then select. You can also bring up the preferences menu with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+K (or Command+K for Mac). Modifying the exported file to use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and importing it does not resolve the issue.Įxporting it again without logoff/reboot, and the entry for PDF has already disappeared. Follow these steps to prevent Adobe Acrobat Reader from opening PDFs within your web browser: Open Adobe Acrobat Reader and select Edit > Preferences in the menu bar. Domain GPO should take precedence over local GPO anyways.Įxporting the file associations with DISM for the impacted users: the file does not contain an entry for PDF. Also modifying the local GPO to point to a local copy of the xml used in the domain GPO does not resolve the issue. On one of the users I found a local gpo pointing to c:\windows\ccm, but after deleting that file a couple of days ago, the issue persists and the file did not reappear. I dont understand why Firefox doesnt give me the. I followed the link given above and verified that Adobe Acrobat PDF document is set to 'Always ask'. The GPO is applied, and I can see the UNC path in the registry: hklm:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System pointing to the file I setup via GPO. I see the same behavior - I changed the pdfjs.disabled setting to true and now Firefox asks me to save (most) PDF files without giving me the option to open them directly with Acrobat Reader.
After setting up a domain GPO for default file associations, some users (10 on a total of 5k) still have Edge as default PDF reader.