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I have a problem with File Associations and making PDF-XChange Viewer the default PDF Viewer

Knowledge Base Article: KB264 - Created On: Apr 18, 2010 01:42 PM - Last Modified: May 2, 2012 06:23 AM

 
Symptoms

 PDF-XChange Will not set as the default PDF Viewer/Reader in Windows

 

Cause

 This is sometimes caused by installing updates to Adobe Reader or even some just installing other Software or Hardware which may come supplied with Adobe Reader to allow you to read that products User Manual, despite your setting PDF-XChange as the default PDF Viewer and even doing so via the Menu option Edit -> Preferences -> File Associations, Windows persists in using another Viewer/Reader as the default application for PDF files. 

 

Resolution

 Open a command Prompt with Administrative privileges 
(See your Windows 'Help' for more info on a command prompt Window)

  • Navigate to the PDF-XChange install folder (by default this should be as below unless you elected to change the installer defaults or have a 64 bit system).  This is the folder that contains the executable PDFXCview.exe.  Type:
    cd "C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Viewer" including the quotation marks.

  • run this command: PDFXCview.exe /makeassoc:web=true

This should set the file associations in Windows as well as your web browsers.

Note you must have Administrative rights for this to correctly function!

 

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