How do I stop Edge from opening PDF files?

Anonymous
2020-04-16T12:40:17+00:00

How do I stop Microsoft edge from opening? everytime I do the system performance check from dell it sets up Microsoft edge to open PDF files and I have my own program I use, however I cant set it as my default program.... 

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Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 10

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Anonymous
2020-04-17T08:41:58+00:00

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We understand your concern as you would like to change the default app for PDF file from Edge to Adobe.

In this scenario, we would suggest you to perform these methods and check.

Method 1: Change the setting for Apps

  1. Press Windows + I key to launch Windows Settings.
  2. Click on Apps and select Default apps from the left pane.
  3. Now scroll down and click on Choose default apps by file type.
  4. Scroll and look for .pdf, .pdxml, and .pdx file type, then click on the + sign to change it to Adobe Reader.

Method 2: Stop opening PDF file if you are using New Edge Chromium.

  1. Open Microsoft Edge
  2. Click on the three dots (…) from the right top corner.
  3. Select Settings from the drop down and click on Site permissions from the left pane.
  4. Scroll down and click on PDF documents, Toggle the switch to On for Always open PDF files externally.

Notes: If the Always open PDF files externally is on then if you try to open any online PDF document, it will prompt you to download and later you can use Adobe Reader to view.

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Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator

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Anonymous
2020-08-14T08:06:25+00:00

Adobe Acrobat professional is not changing the default app.  

It was in 2018 that Windows tightened up the file association protection measures that you seem to be running into. I can't find documentation for this, but versions newer than Acrobat Pro DC 18 shouldn't be doing this. It's likely that Acrobat Pro 2017 writes to registry keys that only users are allowed to change (by using the default apps settings available).

Could it be that you're using an older version of Acrobat?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-12T15:56:30+00:00

    Hi,

     

    Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

     

    We understand your concern as you would like to change the default app for PDF file from Edge to Adobe.

     

    In this scenario, we would suggest you to perform these methods and check.

    Method 1: Change the setting for Apps

    1. Press Windows + I key to launch Windows Settings.
    2. Click on Apps and select Default apps from the left pane.
    3. Now scroll down and click on Choose default apps by file type.
    4. Scroll and look for .pdf, .pdxml, and .pdx file type, then click on the + sign to change it to Adobe Reader.

     

    Method 2: Stop opening PDF file if you are using New Edge Chromium.

    1. Open Microsoft Edge
    2. Click on the three dots (…) from the right top corner.
    3. Select Settings from the drop down and click on Site permissions from the left pane.
    4. Scroll down and click on PDF documents, Toggle the switch to On for Always open PDF files externally.

    Notes: If the Always open PDF files externally is on then if you try to open any online PDF document, it will prompt you to download and later you can use Adobe Reader to view.

     

    Regards,

    Aditya Roy
    Microsoft Community – Moderator

    I have done all of these methods time and time again, it works until I reboot, the only real course of action left seems to be remove EDGE unless there is another way.

    It's so annoying and frustrating why would you want a poorly featured web browser when I have a richly featured PDF editor to do the job I want.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-01T20:50:56+00:00
    1. Right-click the thumbnail of a PDF file, and then choose Properties

    2. In the file's Properties dialog box, click Change.

    3.If you have Acrobat DC or both Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC, choose Adobe Acrobat DC and click OK. or If you have only Acrobat Reader DC, choose Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and click OK.

    1. In the Properties dialog box, click OK

    Can refer to this link https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/not-default-pdf-owner-windows10.html

    You can do that, but it will not stick. Eventually after a couple of days (or less), the default app for PDF's always goes back to Edge. Look through the previous posts, and you will see that many many many people have done this, and will not work for very long. This is always the first thing that everyone tries, and we would not have this thread if it worked.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-01T15:40:19+00:00

    You miss the point. I already know how to set Default Apps. And that SHOULD be the end of it. Apparently for Edge, there is a Step 2. THAT is the annoying part.

    The original question posed by WilliamLambeth2 was, "How do I stop Edge from opening PDF files?" That is what I was responding to and wanted to share what helped me.

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