Cannot view PDF files b/c it goes to Notepad

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When I try to open a PDF file, it goes to my Notepad for some reason
and I cannot view it. I have Acrobat 7.0 and have reinstalled it many
times trying to get it to work. How can I direct it so that it does
not go to my Notepad and open it correctly? Please help! Thank you.
 
right click on a pdf file, select open with and locate acrobat, click apply and ok.
by the way here is a much newer acrobat out.



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When I try to open a PDF file, it goes to my Notepad for some reason
and I cannot view it. I have Acrobat 7.0 and have reinstalled it many
times trying to get it to work. How can I direct it so that it does
not go to my Notepad and open it correctly? Please help! Thank you.
 
Check in your control panel. Someplace along the line you lost the pdf
association.
Open control panel go to folder options. Then file types. You can
reaasociate there.
 
While the suggestions made to adjust the target through Folder Options, or through
Open With, will usually work, based on my own experience with this problem, I
suggest you uninstall Acrobat Reader via Add or Remove Programs, and then do a fresh
install of Acrobat Reader from a fresh download, rather than reinstalling it over
itself.
 
I will try this. Thank you! Do you know how I can permanently fix the
problem so that I don't have to do this for every pdf file?
 
I will try this. It sounds more like a permanent fix to the problem
but I won't know until I try it. Thank you!
 
Did you experience the same problem? I have tried removing Acrobat and
reinstalling it many times and sometimes with different Acrobat
versions. However each time my attemp failed to fix the problem. Do
you know why I'm unable to fix the problem this way? Thank you!
 
I didn't...it was a friend's computer. Reassociating (as mikey described) allowed
him to open PDF files, but other things were still broken in Acrobat Reader, because
his installation was damaged. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixed his problem.
Your issue is apparently from a different cause.

Try the method mikey mentioned (Open with> select Acrobat Reader's executable file
and check the box to Always Use The Selected Program, then click OK). It will apply
to ALL PDF files, so you don't have to do it for each file, as long as you check the
box to Always Use The Selected Program.
 
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