no pdf attachement readable

[Horst Heinrich Dittgens]

Although my Vista Home Premium opens PDF files doubleclicked in Explorer as
expected, my Windows Mail doesn't open those files any more, claiming that
no application has been assigned to this extension.

How else can I assign the installed Adobe Reader V9 to Windows Mail pdf file
extensions?

 

[mac]

Although my Vista Home Premium opens PDF files doubleclicked in Explorer
as expected, my Windows Mail doesn't open those files any more, claiming
that no application has been assigned to this extension.

How else can I assign the installed Adobe Reader V9 to Windows Mail pdf
file extensions?

See:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/236/1/Unable-to-open-PDF-attachments-from-Windows-Mail.html

 

[Horst Heinrich Dittgens]

Thanks you for the link, but the little application there doesn't work in my
case.

Grr, why can't this silly winmail.exe use standard file extension
assignments just as all other apps can do?

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MS MVP\)]

That fix has worked for everyone else who has tried it.
Be sure to run Adobe Reader as an Administrator when applying the fix.

 

[Horst Heinrich Dittgens]

That fix has worked for everyone else who has tried it.

Be sure to run Adobe Reader as an Administrator when applying the fix.

Well, I'm not *everyone*
I'm sorry, but even as Admin it doesn't work. The toll does not remove the
registry's .pdf entry, f.e., and therefore the reader is still assigned to
it, of course.

But even if I remove the .pdf entry in registry, verify it by getting the
reader not started by pdf doubleclicking, and rerun the reader's repair
function, it's all the same as before: doubleclicking a pdf file in explorer
works, winmail pdf attachment does not.

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MS MVP\)]

Just how are you running Adobe Reader as Admin?
The usual method (right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting
'Run as administrator') does not work because that option is missing.
One has to right-click on the executable, AcroRd32.exe.

 

[Horst Heinrich Dittgens]

The usual method (right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting

'Run as administrator') does not work because that option is missing.
One has to right-click on the executable, AcroRd32.exe.

Thank you for this advice. Even the tool 'unassoc.exe' doesn't remove the
..pdf entry running Acrord32.exe via right click solved my problem.

Viewing back it's coming clear to me that running a link as admin does not
need to be the same as running an exe as admin, but from an OS like Vista I
would have expected at least a warning or additional information if it is
not the same, because why else should one run a link as admin if one doesn't
would like ti run the linked app as admin?

What I do not understand: What does unassoc.exe? I though it would simply
remove the .pdf entry, and maybe additionaly some related entries, but at
least the first one isn't done.

Thanks again,
Horst

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MVP\)]

Sounds like you were successful after running AcroRd32.exe as
administrator.
The author of that fix needs to clarify the procedure.
Unassoc.exe is used to disassociate a given extension (such as PDF)
from the app it was associated with.