Next, scroll down all the way to '.pdf' on the left column.
Do we we need to register our application somewhere or something in order to allow our customer to set our application as the default PDF Application during install? There is no reason Adobe can do this and we would not be able to. In the search type 'Default' and click on 'Choose default apps by file type'. My question is: How can our company generate the file association hash so that our applicationĬan be set as the default. We've noticed that Adobe Acrobat is somehow able to set file associations when being installed.
Per MS, this key shouldn't be touched and any tampering here results in automatic reset to Windows 10 default, with the modern apps taking over. The file assoc reset is mostly triggered by "old" programs that modify the UserChoice registry key (as they did in Windows 7 or earlier) for setting associations, which makes the "hash" invalid. New file association protections that have led a number of applications to run into this issue. Doing some research it seems that windows has changed the way file associations are handled and have implemented some After installing Windows 10 just displays a message "an app default was reset".
Follow these steps to change the default app to Adobe Acrobat. This can be cumbersome since Edge can limit what functionality you have. To use our PDF Studio application as the default. PDF, and Microsoft Excel Use Open in Another App to copy spreadsheets to apps such as Dropbox Some features. By default Windows 10 is set to use Edge to open & view PDFs. Since windows 10 has been released our installer is no longer able to set. My company (Qoppa Software) develops PDF Editor applications that are a competitor to Adobe.