Setting default application when opening pdf attachments from email | 4 easy ways

hello everyone i hope you are well and welcome to my channel if this is the first time that you are in my channel please subscribe so you can see the latest and the best solution for different i.t problems that you face during your working day at this video at learntech i'm going to show you a solution about a problem regarding the attachments on your outlook email so let me show you the problem so for example i have received an email with a pdf attached and what happens is that in the moment that i want to open this file so i'll double click on it okay so now it is opening the file using internet explorer but i don't want this to happen i want to open pdf files using adobe reader and not internet explorer i'm going to show you different methods how you can fix this because sometimes for this problem it doesn't work a solution but it may work another one so i'm going to show you at least you three ways how you can fix this problem so let's start right away the first way how we can solve this problem is that we open adobe reader acrobat reader and then it will normally it will pop up a note which will ask us make other acrobat reader my default pdf application so i'm going to click on yes then set reader as default continue okay so i have to follow all the steps one by one until adobe reader becomes okay i need to change this and to make other acrobat reader the default one okay so you see type of file pdf file open with acrobat reader so i press apply then okay then continue so normally now the email that has the pdf file should open using adobe reader so let's try so we double click on this one so it worked also the first method by making the default application to open a pdf file adobe reader another method how you can fix this problem is that you go to a pdf file and you click with the right of the mouse you choose open with you don't choose adobe reader in this case but you go and you choose another app so you choose the option choose another app then from here i will select adobe reader dc if it is selected i'll keep it selected but if it's not i will select adobe reader dc and then don't forget to choose this option here always use this app to open dot pdf files so i click on this one then i press ok all right so this was the second method how you can do that normally it should open with adult reader now the attachment on the email so another thing that you need to do is that after you have opened the outlook email you have to go to file and then you choose options you go to trust center you choose this option here trust center settings and here you go to attachment handling attachment and document previews you choose this one and from here make sure that pdf is selected so pdf preview handler it's selected and in this way also it gives you the opportunity that you can preview the pdf attachment on outlook in a then we press okay then okay okay and so this is the third method how to fix this issue another way how you can fix this problem is by going at settings by searching at the search settings and we go at default apps here and we choose this set default by apps all right so from here i'm going to choose the default program to open pdf files adobe reader so from the list on the left i have the programs in this case the program is adobe acrobat reader and here choose defaults for this program on the right i click on that one and here are all the extensions for different files that i will use adobe reader to open them i'll just select all of them and then i'll press on save and normally now all this type of files will be opened by adobe reader so this was the fourth method actually how you can configure adobe reader to be your default program to open pdf files and the attachments which are in pdf on your email so basically that's all that i wanted to show to you guys thank you very much for watching this video i hope that you liked it and please leave your comments on the section below please subscribe to my channel thank you

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Length: 5min 56sec (356 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 29 2021