On your Windows 7 or 8 computer, when you click on a PDF – the universal office file format – it opens in Adobe Acrobat, or Acrobat Reader, or Foxit Reader, or whatever program you have installed for PDFs. I recommend that all new Windows 10 users follow those instructions. I’ve written instructions here about how to set Internet Explorer or (better) Chrome as your default Internet browser, and make Edge disappear. If you keep using Edge, you’ll quickly run into an even deeper problem when you try to install LastPass or the Acrobat toolbar or anything else that requires extensions – technology that Edge will not support for many months more. The first impression is immediately made worse when you discover that all your Favorites are missing. That’s a bit unnerving because Edge’s appearance is completely different than Internet Explorer (no Home button, no Favorites bar, different icons for Favorites and other functions), with no particular obvious advantage. Edge starts opening up when you click on links in email messages or documents. When you choose “Express Install” during the Windows 10 upgrade, Microsoft sets its unfinished Edge Internet browser as your default browser. When you upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft is changing two fundamental defaults without any warning. We loathe the companies that change the home page in our Internet browser, or that add toolbars, or that install programs that take over some function that was being handled just fine without them. One of the unforgivable sins in modern computing is to change the way programs behave without permission. We’ll be gentle about that.īut Microsoft is also creating a poor first impression of Windows 10 with changes to default programs driven by poor judgment and hubris, not technical defects. Okay, there’s a lot of PC hardware in the world and it’s hard to support the incredible variety of equipment that we have lashed together in hundreds of millions of different configurations. On the first point, there have been too many problems for too many people after their Windows 10 upgrades, ranging from complete failure to a vast array of smaller problems with displays, printers, USB devices, and much more. It’s done pretty well but hardly flawlessly. High on the list were two things: making the upgrade process smooth and uneventful and creating the first impression that Windows 10 is both familiar and slightly improved over your previous version of Windows. □īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.Microsoft needed to execute flawlessly on a number of things for Windows 10 to be an inarguable success. I wish Bill Gates had stuck with his CD-ROM vision of the future. I can only assume Microsoft wants Edge to keep popping up, as most of what people do on PCs now involves browsers. ![]() (I can manually navigate to it and select it to open that file in it, but the default isn't changed.) And if I go to Windows' own "Settings > Default Programs > by file type" and select Sumatra, the window crashes, and the setting is unchanged. SumatraPDF doesn't even appear in the "Open with > Select another app" list now. That's usually what causes problems like these. Probably more Windows Updates changing things. Instructions you quote and per pick on an existing historic icon you need a fresh link Usually I don't seem to need to as I use both, but select any pdf and then replace handler with exe should work Resetting should work, until as you say some related MS update fettling. Varies from time to time, and MS use of Edge as PDF default, thus blocks SumatraPDF from setting itself as the default for PDF.
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