Summary

This tutorial will guide you in setting Adobe Reader as your default PDF viewing application in Windows 10. Doing this will ensure that PDF documents automatically open in your preferred application every time.

 

Steps

1. Navigate to a PDF file that you would like to open.



2. Right click on your file and mouse over the Open with option.



3. An additional options window will appear to the right. Select Choose another app at the bottom of this list.


   

4. A new window will appear. Select the Adobe application under “Other Options” and check the box next to Always use this app to open .pdf files. Click OK to continue.

 

NOTE: You may have more than one Adobe application installed. In this example we are selecting using Adobe Acrobat DC as it will allow us to edit PDF files.



You have successfully changed your default PDF viewer. Now when you open any PDF file normally, it will default to the Adobe application.