Internet Explorer .pdf files?
Technology 04/29/2003 |
It’s the little things that get to me about Windows most of the time. Things like this — today, for absolutely no reason that I can think of, Windows has decided that Adobe Acrobat .pdf files should have Internet Explorer’s icon.
Why? Only Windows knows. I haven’t installed anything, changed any system settings, or done anything differently than the same basic things I do every day (opening, saving, printing documents). But it looks like this is what’s meant to be. At least until Windows changes its mind and either sets .pdf’s back to their original icon, or chooses something entirely different.
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Michael Hanscom
April 29th, 2003 at 8:00 pm
try holding down the shift key while you RIGHT CLICK on a pdf file…then choose OPEN WITH from the menu that pops up..scroll down the list, choose Adobe Acrobat…..put a tick mark in “use this program all the time”, and see if that changes the icons……….isn’t windoze a wonderful thing??
April 29th, 2003 at 10:42 pm
I find that sometimes when a .pdf document is accessible or linked someway by the internet, it tends to have the explorer icon. I work with Adobe Acrobat alot and that is a fairly common occurence, but it seems to have no effect on the actual document.