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Hi,
I use Sumatra pdf it's very lite weight.
I'm actually baffled as to why "WinziP" would cause Acrobat to be removed as your default PDF reader. That makes no sense. I too use WinZip and have never seen the issue you put forth. Currently running WinZip 24, before that I was running WinZip19 and still never had an issue. Your issue is weird to say the least.
Weird it may be, but if you care to research tenforums - 3-4 years ago, if an old old old version of Winzip was installed it caused reversion to default. Found, reported, and confirmed several times by different people.
Why? No idea. There was one other program that did that.
I'm using an old v 11. I like it, I paid for it, and I don't feel like learning a new interface (in fact, I'm getting sick of all kinds of tools changing interfaces that I like -- though I don't mind when they fix the ones I don't like).
TBF, it only seems to change the default (and the icon for .pdf files) when I use it for certain operations. Not sure what they are yet. But it's clearly the cause.
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Honestly, it may not have been there at the time you replied. No need for apology.
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Even after using this technique, using my old WinZip has reset the default.
It's not really a big deal at this point. I know when it's happening, so I can reset it quickly. And it's a "feature" of an old program that can't really be fixed.
[QUOTE=sygnus21;1848852]Use whatever you want but when an old app causes issues you can't complain. WinZip 11 is 14-years old!!! The latest version is WinZip 24. You're 13 versions behind!
I am aware. Not complaining (well, yes I am). I will obviously be forced to move up soon.
[QUOTE=gammonGo;1857449]Simply Amazing........
All you need to do is get up to speed with the latest versions and quit playing around would old versions and program like WinZip. I don't use WinZip nor Adobe Acrobat reader because Win 10 latest version which has ZIP and Adobe Reader build into itself.
Can't get any simpler.
FYI: Windows 10 - An app default was reset (older WinZip versions) – WinZip - Knowledgebase
Note. I don't use Winzip so did not test.