PDF: file associations in Vista?

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Nigel Molesworth

I've recently installed CS4, with Acrobat, and it seems to have messed up my
file associations in Vista. Although I can open PDF files on my Desktop, I
can't open them directly in emails without saving them first.

Ideally I want to go back to the system I had some time ago, where the
default is "Open with Adobe Reader", and a right click gives the option to
"Edit with Acrobat". In XP this was easy as you could create new
associations and edit them - how can I do this in Vista?
 
Nigel said:
I've recently installed CS4, with Acrobat, and it seems to have
messed up my file associations in Vista. Although I can open PDF
files on my Desktop, I can't open them directly in emails without
saving them first.

Ideally I want to go back to the system I had some time ago, where the
default is "Open with Adobe Reader", and a right click gives the
option to "Edit with Acrobat". In XP this was easy as you could
create new associations and edit them - how can I do this in Vista?
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Maybe the following article will help:

Windows Vista -
Unable to open .PDF
attachments from Windows Mail
http://tinyurl.com/6q38na
or...
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/236/1/Unable-to-open-PDF-attachments-from-Windows-Mail.html

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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Maybe the following article will help:
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Indeed, that did help, thank you.

I've also found a kind of fix for the Open / Edit options:

I deleted the following registry key:

<HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\pdf>

I now have "Open with Acrobat 9" and "Open with Adobe Reader 8" on my
right-click menu. The first is the default, and not what I wanted, but it's
a start. A bonus is that the PDF thumbnails now work again.
 
Nigel said:
Indeed, that did help, thank you.

I've also found a kind of fix for the Open / Edit options:

I deleted the following registry key:

<HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\pdf>

I now have "Open with Acrobat 9" and "Open with Adobe Reader 8" on my
right-click menu. The first is the default, and not what I wanted,
but it's a start. A bonus is that the PDF thumbnails now work again.
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You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.

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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
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