Hi,
I have always been able to view PDF's in outlook and File Explorer without opening them and then one day it stuopped working. I have done the troubleshoot items and made sure its set as the default. No updates have been done and nothing change prior to make it stop working.
It comes up with "This file cant be previewed because of an error in the PDF Preview Handler"
Is there a fix for this?
I have tried everything I can find to fix the problem with no avail. I still can't preview PDF files in Windows explorer.
I have:
- reinstalled windows
- uninstalled and reinstalled Acrobat reader
- Made sure the preview box in Acrobat is checked
- unchecked the Enable Protected mode at start up
- turned off the protected mode
- unchecked Enhanced Security
- rebooted the computer several times
- ran disc cleanup
- installed and ran ccleaner
Is there anything else I can try, short of reformating the drive and reinstalling everything from scratch?
Hello -I also tried various steps posted with no success. Then, I realized my default viewer was Acrobat and not the Acrobat Reader DC application. Once I switched defaults to open in the Reader application, I was able to preview the files within mail and file-explorer as normal. I hope this helps.
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