How do I reset Preview?

Preview crashes everytime I launch the program or right-click to "open with" preview for any type of file. I clear all the program caches using Onyx. I repaired the permissions and still the Preview App is just not working. Its kind of hard to do anything in OSX without Preview. Any ideas anyone?

Try going into your preferences and move this file to the trash com.apple.Preview.plist, then give it a try.
To get to your preferences you need to be in the finder then hold down the option key while clicking on the go menu item then select library>preferences. 

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