Frequently Asked Question

Making Adobe Reader (or another application) my default PDF viewer
Last Updated 7 years ago

Windows defaults to opening PDF files in Edge. Unfortunately Edge isn't a very good PDF viewer, so you'll probably want to make Adobe Reader your default (or Acrobat / Foxit if you're a licensed user of either of these products).  

All company issued computers will already have Adobe Reader installed. To make it your default PDF viewe:

  1. right click on any PDF file
  2. go to Open with
  3. Choose another app
  4. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (or Foxit PhantomPDF / Adobe Acrobat if applicable)
  5. check the box to Always use this app to open .pdf files
  6. click OK

PDFs will now open in the selected application.  Sometimes Windows updates will revert this back to Edge, if this happens just repeat the above procedure.

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