Stop Edge from taking control of PDF's permanently!!!

Anonymous
2021-01-20T05:56:56+00:00

I am very frustrated with Microsoft Edge continuously hijacking PDFs.  I run Adobe Acrobat and need to have the tools.  I have tried the standard ways of setting Adobe as the default program for PDFs - through Control Panel, through Properties of the file, through Open with.  None of these work for even an hour.

I have also tried a couple of hacks through Regedit that seem to work for others but not for me.

I am at the stage that if i could I would uninstall Edge.

So, how can I permanently set Adobe as the default program for PDFs?

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-08T10:08:15+00:00

    there is only one way to solve this, enter regedit and turn off the file in edge. google it

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-06T00:33:52+00:00

    Full reformat not the solution. I tried that last year and Edge was hijacking my default pdf with a few weeks. Just purchased a brand new machine with fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro and Edge hijacked my .pdf defaults within a week. Microsoft has known this since 2015 and refuse to fix it. This needs to be reported to the The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for anti competitive practices. Microsoft does not want you using anything but Edge browser and pdf. Worse case they should tell users that they cannot use a non Microsoft pdf editor instead of the non stop heads games of telling users that changing the default .pdf in settings will fix.

    Again, there's thousands of complaints on-line since 2015, guessing 100's just in this forum.

    Pathetic!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-05T23:37:21+00:00

    Hi SharonBVA.

    That's a bummer. I managed to get Edge uninstalled but continued to have the same problem with Micrsoft removing Adobe's association with PDFs. In this case Microsoft associated PDFs with nothing.

    The only way I found to fix it was a full reformat. I haven't had the problem since.

    I hope you find a way.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-08-05T14:03:05+00:00

    I have battled the same problem for about 2 years. Sometimes resetting the default in settings lasted months, and sometimes it would revert several times in one day. The shortest time I had Adobe as my default was 7 minutes before it switched back. I have Adobe Creative Cloud, and prefer using Chrome for my browser, so I had no need for Edge at all. Funny enough, at the top of this page Edge is trying to get me to switch to Edge as my default browser - persistent sucker.

    In frustration, I turned to my company's IT department. They somehow got Edge uninstalled. I wish I knew how they did this so I could share the secret with all of you.

    It has been a blissful and quiet 4 months since that was done... until this morning. When I opened a document, Adobe had a big pop-up asking if I wanted to make Adobe my default PDF reader. I went right to settings, and sure enough, Microsoft Edge was there as my PDF default program. Only it was just the words "Microsoft Edge" and a blank blue box, no Edge logo. Extra persistent sucker.

    So even thought the program is no longer on my computer, Microsoft is still trying to push me to Edge. I'm so frustrated. The claim that certain functions of the computer require Edge to run is false, since I've been running for months without Edge and without problems. My Adobe is up to date and I use it all day, every day. Why is this still happening?

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-30T11:44:16+00:00

    Hi Todd

    I feel for you. I am lucky in that a full reformat (Win 10 Pro) solved the problem. I found no comfort or solutions from either Microsoft or Adobe. I would have thought that it is in their best interests to solve this as there are alternatives to both Windows and Adobe.

    I wish you all the luck and maybe Windows 11 will be more reasonable.

    Cheers

    Lester

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