Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 11
Opening and reading PDF files in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11
This worked , thank you
Why can I not change my default .pdf app to anything other than Microsoft Edge?
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Anonymous
I follow the steps (via Settings) and no change. I try to open Adobe Reader and it will not open on my PC. I see from a search that this is not a new issue and it's frustrating. This feels predatory and proprietary - forcing us to use Microsoft products. I'm thinking of stopping my personal subscription and moving to another option.
Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 11
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Anonymous
2024-05-03T16:10:23+00:00 -
Anonymous
2024-05-03T15:56:34+00:00 Yep same here. Very frustrating MS.
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Anonymous
2024-05-03T15:21:31+00:00 I have not been able to ever open pdf documents using PDF Reader and Editor ELF program on my Windows laptop. After following the directions below given by several others, it still wouldn't open. So I uninstalled the ELF program and installed the PDF X reader, and now the documents open no problem.
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Anonymous
2024-05-03T15:04:33+00:00 Confirmed. I had to kill all instances of Edge to allow me to select the default app to open my PDF files. This better be fixed in a hotfix patch for Edge Quickley. this is affecting a lot of users.
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Anonymous
2024-05-03T14:46:17+00:00 Same here, this worked after trying to change the default through settings.