Chrome keeps seizing itself as default PDF app

[BugsySiegel]

I'm really sorry if this has been asked and answered. My searching skills are not the best.

I'm running Windows 10 in a domain. I also have Adobe Acrobat Professional 2017 installed. I try to use Chrome as my default browser because many work sites don't work with IE. Several times a week (sometimes several times a day), I have to go into the Windows default apps and change the default app for PDF documents from Chrome back to Adobe.

If anyone has a solution or a recommendation, I would love to be done with this problem.

[ls_rbls]

Hello,

You mentioned that you use a windows10 computer that participates in a domain.

Are you the networking manager with admin access to resources and configuration files in that domain?

Or  are you a regular user in that domain with  limited access to configuration settings?

Do you log in to that windows 10 computer through a user account  and  a user profile?

[BugsySiegel]

I am logging in with a regular domain account; however, it happens when I'm logged in using my domain admin account as well. I do have access to configuration and Group Policy settings. I haven't seen anything in GP that is causing it.

Thanks.

[ls_rbls]

Assuming that the Group Policy settings are all good and that there is no need to modify them I would check the references below for each of the products in use,

In Windows 10

PDF browser plug in missing - Microsoft Community

For Chrome browser  check these settings

PDFs don't open automatically in Chrome - Google Chrome Help

In Adobe Acrobat check the following

Display PDF in browser Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader

And here for additional insights even though it applies to Internet Explorer settings

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-reinstall-the-adobe-reader-plugin

[ls_rbls]

This post is also useful if you need to reset the plugin from within Adobe Acrobat

https://itstillworks.com/missing-plugins-adobe-reader-8268024.html

[ls_rbls]

This post is also useful if you need to reset the plugin from within Adobe Acrobat

https://itstillworks.com/missing-plugins-adobe-reader-8268024.html