#Set google chrome as default pdf reader windows 10 pdf#

The setting you refer to in the Edge settings says this: “If Microsoft Edge is your default PDF reader, PDF files will open automatically without downloading.” Changing that in the settings simply causes the PDF files to download no matter what browser you’re in. Sorry, DrCard, your suggestion did not work. You also have to reapply the changes after every Windows update as the updates will reset them back to Microsoft’s preferred programs (I have mine set to auto-run Set User FTA at every bootup.) There is a work around that allows you to set your own personal file associations just as before, but it requires 3rd party S/W ( Set User FTA) that can create a “ valid” hash key for the changes so they stick. Prior to Windows 10 you could “ manually” edit the file association entries in the registry to fix your problem but, starting with Windows 10, Microsoft locked them down by using a “ self-generated” hash key that, if changed, forces the file associations to revert back to Microsoft’s preferred defaults. I got sucked into the Microsoft world back in ’92 while serving in the USAF where I had to use Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with the NCSA Mosiac browser.įinally took the plunge and purchased a Windows PC back in ’97 (Gateway laptop) and haven’t looked back since. I started out with an Apple+ and still “ occasionally” used an Apple IIGS all the way up til 2014. Welcome to a fellow Apple devotee who eventually entered the “ convoluted” world of Microsoft Windows!

Long gone are the days when system settings and program preferences resided at one location.

Since my days of the Apple IIe, through several Macintosh versions, and subsequent entry into the maze that is Windows computing, the PC has pretty much ceased to be “personal,” and has become the CC - Communal Computer.