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Christina5EC7
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August 25, 2020
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PDF preview not working in Explorer

  • August 25, 2020
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My PDF Viewer in Explorer stopped working a few weeks ago.  I have tried the following troubleshooting steps & they have not worked 1) Preview pane in Explorer turned on/off 2) Adobe reader "Enable PDF thumbnails previews" unchecked & re-checked.  3) uninstall/re-install  Adobe reader. 4) went to Adobe program file setting & selected run in "compatibility mode" forWindow 8.  5) prayed...

 

Nothing has worked - Anyone have any other suggestions?

    Correct answer WesWooHoo

    If you're in Windows 10 with this (I've been frustrated for months with this), if previews work INSIDE Acrobat but not in Explorer.
    There was a Microsoft thread about this and the solution was to load Microsoft PowerToys.  There is an option under File Explorer Add-ons to enable PDF previews!  It actually worked for me.  Apologies to Adobe for all of my angry rants (on this issue).  Good Luck everyone

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    TheDragonBytes
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    September 14, 2020

    Same problem here.  Preview of pdf files doesn't work in either File Explorer or with a third party file manager I have been using.

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