PDF preview in windows 8.1

I am facing a problem previewing PDF file from my application.
It was working find in windows xp and windows 7 machines, but showing error line "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component" in windows 8.1 machine.
my application using "Adobe PDF preview for Vista" for PDF preivew.
i think my previewer is causing the problem, but dont know which preview handler me to use instead of "Adobe PDF preview Handler for vista"
please help me to solve this
ps: from my windows explorer i can see pdf preview.
Thanks
Rosh

After a close debug, i found that "doPreview" is crashing my application. Also the previewer assembly "PDFPrevHndlr.dll" is modified in Adobe Acrobat XI.
the modified "DoPreview" method now expecting 2 parameter (int, out int), after giving some values in it, it stops crashing, still my PDF preview not shown up.

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