Microsoft Edge keeps making itself the default PDF viewer instead of acrobat

Anonymous
2023-04-22T23:24:06+00:00

This is a dup thread for one that was started in 2020. Same stuff is still happening. I'm about 5 minutes from uninstalling Edge. If my PC reboots, Edge takes over PDFs. So annoying

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T12:07:09+00:00

    THIS SIMPLY DOESNT WORK.

    I have tried all the advice about stopping Edge from hijacking PDF files and nothing works. After I set Acrobat to be the default program for PDF files, sometimes, within an hour, Edge has made itself the default browser again.

    This is insufferable

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-10T22:12:23+00:00

    It won't hold.

    Never did and never will.

    We're doing this change after almost every 'big' MS-update

    There are numerous threads about this around the web, and nobody from Microsoft ever replies to the customer observation that their suggestion DOES NOT WORK. Why don't they admit that Microsoft has set this up intentionally?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-11T11:06:52+00:00

    It won't hold.

    Never did and never will.

    We're doing this change after almost every 'big' MS-update

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-30T14:57:37+00:00

    Hi! On my version of Adobe Acrobat this selection is not available in Basic Tools. I do see under Application Startup (also in General) that there is a button "Select as Default PDF Handler" but it is grayed out. Right below it there is a checkbox that is selected "Tell me if Adobe Acrobat Reader is not my default PDF application." So basically all it does is open in Microsoft Edge every time and just notifies me to make Edge the default application. It clearly is showing that adobe should be opening the file, but still adobe does not.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-10T23:51:12+00:00

    It appears Edge created a second entry for .pdf, which after reboot or just the next day takes over, even though one was still set to Adobe Acrobat.

    I just changed the 2nd one manually - we'll see if it holds.

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