PDF Preview Handler is not working

I am using Windows 7 32-bit with MS Office 2010 Professional.
In 'My Documents' I have files associated with .pdf but it is not showing me any previews.
I can go to another PC and I don't have that issue. For example if I am in explorer and
have my pdf files listed it wouldn't allow me to preview.

Nope, using 32-bit. And I recently uninstalled Acrobat Pro completely and reinstalled it due to an issue with it not updating due to having the "Error Applying Transforms" issue. After I reinstalled, I updated it completely. I suppose I can try uninstalling and reinstalling again, but that seems like overkill.
- Merg

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If I uninstall Reader X and install verison 9.3 then the Preview Handler works fine. Any suggestioers? I have run the repoair on Office and reinstalled Reader X again but to no avail.
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No i didnt check for office updates.. however i did locate a fix. I am not usually keen to try random fixes so i tested it solo first to confirm it was legitimate. worked fine. http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/
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Hi Anubha,
Yes I do have the latest version of Acrobat 11, 11.0.10.
I have tried turning the PDF Handler off and back on, that didn’t fix it.
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Hi Sree,
According to your description, your case related to Adobe PDF Preview Handler. This is third-party product. I am afraid this is out of our support. Please ask in their special forum
https://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_reader_forums
By the way, after do some search, it seems not working for 64bit machine,
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Also work fine in win7/vista 64bit????
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Nope, using 32-bit. And I recently uninstalled Acrobat Pro completely and reinstalled it due to an issue with it not updating due to having the "Error Applying Transforms" issue. After I reinstalled, I updated it completely. I suppose I can try uninstalling and reinstalling again, but that seems like overkill.
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I would like to know that how many clients/users are affected by this in your environment. It could be some specific user account settings, that the Office applications are being affected by.
I'd first suggest you try with a new Windows user profile, then verify result.
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