Setting your Default PDF Viewer in WIN 10

Many of you have experienced a problem reading PDF documents on your newly imaged Windows 10 Teacher Computers.  When you double click a PDF document you receive a message that looks like this:

This is happening because Windows 10 is configured so that it’s new browser (Microsoft Edge) is set as the default PDF Viewer.  In order to correct this problem, please do the following:

1. Find a PDF document.
2. Right click your PDF document.
3. In the pop-up menu that appears select “Open with” and then click on “Adobe Acrobat Reader”.  

4. If “Adobe Acrobat Reader” is not listed, select the “Choose another app” menu option and scroll through the list until you find “Adobe Acrobat Reader”.  
5. If you want to be SURE that you consistently open PDF documents using Acrobat Reader (without having to right click each time and selecting “Open with”, then choose the “Choose another app” menu option and find “Adobe Acrobat Reader” in the list.  
6. Highlight “Adobe Acrobat Reader” then click the checkbox below that says “Always use this app to open .pdf files”.

7. Click OK.