If you received an email with a PDF attachment and try to open this from within Windows mail (in Windows Vista), you might get the following error:
“This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel”.
Although you have adobe reader software installed in the computer, you will still not able to open it. After you have followed the instruction to create the association in the Set Associations control panel, it will still not solve the issue.
Why? Because this is a known bug in Windows Mail.
The only workaround solution is: save the attachment, and then open the saved file outside of Windows Mail. (etc: My Document or desktop). But some people might prefer to open the attachment directly instead of saving it to another location and opens it.
There is another more complicated solution which is to create a new user profile and copy all the files and email into the new account. Although this solution will 100% fixed the problem, but not all users know the way to create new user account and then transferring the files into it, unless you get some technical assistance from the experts.
So I was trying to look for a better and simpler solution which allows me to fix this issue.
Guess what? I managed to find the best solution ever after a few searches over Google.
Here’s the solution:
-Click on windows Start button, and in the Start Search box, type in regedit and press the “Enter” button.
-Press “continue” when the User Account Control box prompts out, this will open the Registry Editor window
-Now look for the folder [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.PDF]
-Double-click the (default) value and set its data as: “AcroExch.Document” (without quotes)
-Close Registry Editor and Restart Windows.
**AcroExch.Document is the default ProgID for .PDF, and it was somehow set as “pdf_auto_file” (which is incorrect)
Solution discovery and credits to:
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting
http://winhelponline
You’re done. After the system restart, try opening a pdf attachment in Windows mail and this time it will able to open the attachment directly.
If it cannot open, try creating an association in the Set Associations control panel again and this will surely fix it. I’ve tried myself and it works.
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