How To Fix Microsoft Edge Won't Open PDF Files

[Music] hello everyone how are you doing this is md tech here for another quick tutorial in today's tutorial michigan's had a whole resolve you're coming across an error message when attempting to open up a pdf file in the microsoft edge web browser it says that it couldn't open the pdf something's keeping this pdf from opening so this should all be a pretty straightforward process here guys and without further ado let's go ahead and jump right into it so i recommend starting off by opening up the search menu and search for control panel best match should come back with control panel just go ahead and open that up and then say your view by over on the right you want to select category view and then you want to select programs over here on the left side where it says default programs go ahead and left click on that and then select associate a file type or protocol with a program and now it says enter a file type type in pdf and then select that and you want to go ahead and click inside whatever shows up and select switch anyway and then you want to select microsoft edge or a different pdf reader if you would prefer and then you would select ok to save that change and that's pretty much it that's the biggest thing there guys something else we can try here as well if you were to close out of there and open up microsoft edge and open up the menu icon at the top right and then go down and select settings in the search settings field type in pdf documents and search for it so on the right side you want to scroll down and where it says pdf documents left click on that and you want to make sure it says pdf view settings make sure it's toggled in the on position and then always download pdf files that should just be turned off and that should be about it so pretty straightforward process here guys dual possible to help you out and i do look forward to catching you all in the next tutorial goodbye

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Length: 2min 8sec (128 seconds)

Published: Mon May 02 2022