Windows 8.1 is forgetting Acrobat as my default PDF viewer after startup

I installed Arcobat XI Pro on Windows 8.1. I set Acrobat as my default PDF viewer during the installation. After the installation, none program was set as the default PDF viewer. When I tried to open a PDF file, Windows asked which program I want to use as my default PDF viewer. I Choose Acrobat.
Each time I start up my computer, Windows has forgotten my default PDF viewer. I did some research to find out if it was a problem with Windows or with Acrobat. I turns out to be a problem with Acrobat, becuase if I set Adobe Reader as my default PDF viewer, Windows does remember my default PDF viewer after startup.
Is there anybody with the same problem and do you have a solution?

Hi Anand,
Thanks for your responds.
This way is not working either. Both Reader and Acrobat are version 11.0.9.
Do you have any other solution? Beside, do you have any idea what is causing the problem?
Regards,
Matthijs

Similar Messages

  • Acrobat Ignore "Set as default PDF Viewer" Setting

    Hello,
    I see from previous posts that this has been an issue for a while. I have an image that contains Adobe Reader. That image is deployed to all users. Some users get Acrobat Pro. also. So I went thru the whole customization tool and selelcted "Make Acrobat the default PDF viewer" and am using the Setup.ini and .MST file. Everything else works - skips EULA, reads serial number - everything but making Acrobat Pro the default PDF reader. After I install it and launch it for the first time I am presented with the "make Acrobat reader your default PDF viewer" question. How can I set this once and for all and not prompt every single user?

    Unfortunately there is no option post installation with Acrobat 8 to change PDF ownership. However this is possbile Acrobat 10 onwards. But yYou can choose to make Reader XI the default PDF handler during installation itself.
    1. Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, select the entry "Adobe Reader XI" and Un-install.
    2. Then visit link : http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/ and choose the Reader which you need.
    3. When you double click the EXE, then a screen will come showing extraction of files. As soon as extraction ends, installation will begin and you will be presented with following screen :
    4. Uncheck the checkbox which says "Make Adobe Reader my default PDF viewer"
    Acrobat 8 will remain default PDF viewer on your machine.

  • Default pdf viewer Reader icon in finder shows Acrobat

    I previously selected Acrobat Pro as my default pdf viewer. I then changed back to Reader, however in the Mac Finder I am getting the Acrobat Icon. I changed All Files to Reader, but the icon will not change back.
    Am running Reader 11.0.2 and Acrobat Pro 9.5.4
    Operating system Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

    Hi ,
    Please See the below Steps :
    Step 1
    Single click a PDF file you wish to open or any PDF file in general while holding the control key. Then select 'Get Info' from the menu you've opened.
    Step 2
    Under the heading 'Open with,' the current default application for opening PDFs is listed. If there is no application listed you may need to click the triangle to the left of 'Open with' so that it points downward to reveal the current setting.
    Step 3
    Click on the application listed to open a menu displaying additional applications. In this menu locate the most recent version of Adobe Reader. If Reader is not listed or an old version of the software is listed select 'Other' from the bottom of the menu.  Navigate through your Applications folder to locate the icon for the Adobe Reader application and click to highlight it. Click the Add button to select Reader.
    Step 4
    Back in the information window click the 'Change All' button so that all subsequent PDF files will be opened by Adobe Reader.
    Step 5
    Click the Continue button to confirm that you'd like to change your settings. Now all PDF files will be opened by Adobe Reade

  • How to enable the default pdf viewer of firefox after installing acrobat 11?

    I installed acrobat 11, and i dont like its pdf viewer add-on, so i want to switch back to firefox's default pdf viewe, but i cant change the action in the application option to preview in firefox. i also tried disabling the acrobat plugin.
    Firefox 27, windows 8.1,

    thanks for the help.

  • Keeping Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro as the Default .PDF viewer

    Ok,
    So with all the new vulnerabilities with Adobe reader, our company is try to stay with the current updates of Adobe Reader.  The problem I am running into with patching all the workstations is that we have a large user community that uses Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro as their default .pdf viewer etc. When patching all workstations with the latest Adobe Reader it changes the default to Reader.
    Has anyone had this issues? Or is there away to keep Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro the default when upgrading the Reader?
    I'm thinking of removing Reader all together on the workstations that have Pro.
    Thanks
    B

    bjohnson0678 wrote:
    I'm thinking of removing Reader all together on the workstations that have Pro.
    Thanks
    B
    That is the Adobe recommended and supported setup.
    Too many problems arise when you have those two Adobe products on the same machine.

  • Making Acrobat the Default .pdf Viewer

    Can someone tell me where to find the switch that makes Acrobat 9 my default .pdf program?  Right now it's Foxit and I want to go back to Acrobat 9.  The default switch in Foxit says I have to make the change in Acrobat.
    Thanks.

    Depends on your OS.
    Mostly if you right click on a PDF that is saved on your hard drive and choose "Open with", pick Acrobat and select "always use the selected program to open this type of file" it will clear it up.
    I'm not sure why Foxit gave you that information though.

  • Preview vs adobe acrobat - choosing default pdf viewer

    when i download a pdf document and then click to open it, by default it opens using preview. how do i disable that and make adobe acrobat my default pdf viewer?
    Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   iPod 30Gb color

    Click once on a pdf document and do a Get-Info (command-I). In the resulting box you can choose what program you want to open the document with and with what program you wish to select to open all similar documents. Mac 101.

  • Acrobat Pro as Default PDF Reader

    How can I make Acrobat Pro my default PDF reader, I am using a Mac and whenever I open a pdf it opens it in the Mac OS's 'Preview' software instead of Acrobat Pro

    Select any PDF, Ctrl + click on "Mac", and select Adobe Reader under "Open With" option. Once the PDF opens with Reader, you will see an option to set it as default application to open PDF.

  • I was trying to set Adobe Reader 11 as default PDF viewer on my client PCs, Please help me this. My server is windows 2012 R2 and client PCs are Windows 8.1

    I was trying to set Adobe Reader 11 as default PDF viewer on my client PCs, Please help me this. My server is windows 2012 R2 and client PCs are Windows 8.1

    Hi Krisis,
    I have found a forum where similar query was answered. Hope this helps.
    http://www.loginvsi.com/forum/support-v4/857-adobe-reader-xi-not-set-as-default-pdf-viewer -in-server-2012-r2-rds
    Regards,
    Anoop

  • New Windows 7 machine, Word 2003 & Acrobat 8 - hangs making .pdf

    We got new Dell machines with Windows 7 and transfered all our existing software including Office 2003 and Adobe CS3.
    I can open and use Word seemingly find.  I can open Adobe Acrobat.
    When I try to create a pdf file using a word file (and I tried several different files) by these methods;
    1. Open Acrobat and go 'create pdf from file'
    2. Using the create pdf file icon in Word
    and the creating dialog box gets to 10% and just hangs and hangs and hangs. I left it for over 10 minutes and nothing.
    This is on both machines (where this function with both pieces of software worked fine).
    Also we are having issues setting up new sites and importing our .ste files in Dreamweaver, but I'll post that in the DW forum (just adding it in case it is tied to CS3 on Win 7).
    Thanks for any help.

    Something to check.
    Help > About Adobe Acrobat...
    See what dot version is in place.
    Support for Office 2007 applications began with Acrobat 8.1; so, you want that or better.
    As to Windows 7 —  some Adobe information:
    --| Installing and using Windows 7 with Adobe Creative Suite applications
    http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/508/cpsid_50853.html
    --| Adobe product operating system compatibility
    http://www.adobe.com/support/OScompatibility.html
    --| Adobe Reader/Acrobat – Windows 7 FAQ
    http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/faq/
    From the FAQ page.
    --| Adobe supports Windows 7 with Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9; specifically, this starts with the 9.2 dot release.
    --| Adobe does not support Acrobat 8, Adobe Reader 8 or prior versions on Windows 7
         and does not plan to release updates to those versions for Windows 7 compatibility.
    Be well...

  • How can I/Can I make Firefox the default .PDF viewer in Windows 7?

    For the basic PDF viewing I do, Adobe Reader is just slow and annoying. I love using Firefox, but unfortunately I cannot set it as the default program to open PDF files. Even when I select Firefox after right clicking and select open with, Windows does not comply. Is there a config option I can change that will allow me to set Firefox as the default PDF reader.
    Thank you for your help.

    You can not make Firefox the default for viewing PDF files for the entire Windows Operating System, only the default viewer from within Firefox. Like when PDF files that are downloaded from websites and displayed in Firefox; you can try using '''File > Open File''' from within Firefox to view PDF file that are already saved on that PC, but I'm not sure that will work - I haven't tried doing that.

  • How do I change my default .pdf viewer in Firefox BACK to Adobe Acrobat ?

    HMRC website forms will not open in foxit. How do I change my default .pdf viewre in Firefox BACK to Adobe Acrobat ?

    AWESOME - PROBLEM WAS, AT THE TIME ADOBE AND FOXIT FILE TYPES WERE NOT APPEARING IN MY TOOLS/OPTIONS/APPLICATIONS TAB - THIS IS A MYSTERY . . . .

  • Acrobat Reader 9.1.x freezes after startup

    Hello,
    Our Acrobat Reader is having problems on some machines during startup that it completly freezes after startup.
    I've traced this with procmon and have seens that a certain file "sharedEvents" is trying to to somthing buth it is hanging on
    lock - unlock. Killing All process of Acrobat Reader and deleting this file and then re-starting the program isn't helping because it keeps 0 kb and the mentioned behaviour is trying to do something with this file.
    the file can be found in %appdata%\adobe\acrobat\9.0
    Our profile's is redirected , it is working for most of the users but some users are having this problem.
    Can anybody tell me what Acrobat Reader is doing with this file and is there a work around to initialize everything back again so the
    user can startup the program normally so it is not freezing after startup without having to remove and install it back again ?
    Best regards,
    Bert

    Hi,
    The problem I'm having is a problem on the journal file. After some more investigating it look that the problem can be related to oplocks since we have enbaled oplocks on our server (were the file is placed trough folder redirection). We will check this ...
    I've already disabled oplocks on client side and then everything is working however we are using Vista in combination with offline files and if you disbale oplocks then offline files will not work so we are looking a bith further to see what we can do on server side ... to be continued ...
    Best regards,
    Bert

  • Adobe Acrobat hangs when opening PDFs even after reinstall

    Hello,
    I have 2 new Dell systems that are having issues with Adobe Acrobat.  When opening PDFs, either from an email attachement or file from our server, there is a brief hang that lasts 10-15 seconds, during which Acrobat is unresponsive however the workstation continues to respond.  I've since uninstalled/reinstalled, still no luck.  I've also run updates. Problem unresolved.
    Any ideas

    One of our users is having a similar issue with Adobe Reader 9.2 hanging.  Adobe Reader will eventually open after about 5 seconds.  I've found a work around where if I leave a .pdf document open, any other .pdf I click will open up fine (but a .pdf needs to be left open in Adobe Reader).  This is happening only with one user.  Some of the things I've tried that have not worked: repairing, uninstalling/reinstalling, deleting temp files, opening the file with a different account/profile, downgrading to Adobe Reader 8.1.3.  Anyone have any ideas?  This is only happening to one user at my company.  I've searched the forums here and it looks like other people are having similar issues but there's really not a solution to this.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you in advance.

  • Acrobat XI Standard - Default Page View question?

    Acrobat XI Standard - How do I set all bookmarks to view the same as the "initial view" setting, after combining multiple bookmarked PDF files?

    You need to set their zoom setting to Inherit Zoom.
    On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:20 PM, edwardd51915993 <[email protected]>

Maybe you are looking for

  • IPad safari PDF problems

    When opening PDF files in safari, if the size is too big, only what is viewable on iPad is shown. When scrolling down, it's all blank. The option to open it in iBook which should resolve this problem is also no longer available. I have done a reset b

  • Extend task list for new planning plant

    Hi Gurus, I have 40 task lists for a planning plant 1000. I want to extend them for a new planning plant 2000. Is there any method to do it without usnig BDC or LSMW? Regards, VM

  • Sharing Documentation

    Is there a good description of sharing that addresses sharing between multiple users / accounts on the same computer and sharing between multiple computers?? I get some success in sharing between multiple users / accounts on the same computer and the

  • Process chain--how to schedule the variant even if there is no repeat opt.

    Hello Gurus, Can anybody help me out like the issue was... when monitoring the process-chain,the variant-load infopackage was successfully completed the status was green,and next to that there was a update from the PSA variant and then to that there

  • 320GB really the max upgrade for MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum Uni)?

    So, I've got my MacBook. It's the 13.3" aluminum unibody, from late 2008. Everything in it is stock, except I've upped the memory from 2GB to 4GB. The harddrive is still the original 250GB, which is pretty much full. I've been told by Apple that the