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PDF won't open but gives save prompt instead

ali-t
ali-t Posts: 3,815 Forumite
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As title. Today my laptop is not opening pdf docs and asks me to save them instead. I don't want to have to do this for every document I look at so are there any low tech simple solutions to reset this?
If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got!

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  • santer_2
    santer_2 Posts: 4,406 Forumite
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    edited 18 August 2011 at 10:38PM
    Do they open with this?

    http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/

    Or, click about repair

    http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/836/cpsid_83686.html#main_Repair%20Reader%20or%20Acrobat
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 12,985 Forumite
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    Are they on your laptop, or are they on they net? If they are on the net, what is your browser (and version)? It sounds like your defaults are for save rather than open with adobe reader or foxit.
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  • ali-t
    ali-t Posts: 3,815 Forumite
    I am using mozilla firefox 5.0 and adobe reader 8.1.3
    If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got!
  • ali-t
    ali-t Posts: 3,815 Forumite
    debitcardmayhem wrote: »
    Are they on your laptop, or are they on they net? If they are on the net, what is your browser (and version)? It sounds like your defaults are for save rather than open with adobe reader or foxit.

    I can open ones I have on the laptop but it is ones online that go to save. I used the links provided in this thread but it hasn't made any difference, I still can't open pdf's without saving them.

    How do I change the defaults back to open rather than save?
    If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got!
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Have you tried right click, open with, rather than just double clickingg on the file?
    Your laptop may have lost it's file associations, so it doesn't know what to open the PDF with.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • alanrowell
    alanrowell Posts: 5,389 Forumite
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    Uninstall the software, reboot & reinstall it being careful with the options
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