Portable version - "open with..." menu

[Wamma]

Hi,

I use the portable version of the PDF viewer and I have a question/issue:
I tried opening the .pdf files by right clicking in Windows and selecting "Open
with..." (Then browsing to the .exe file...).
It doesn't work. Neither can I set it as the default app.
Is it an issue with Windows or PDF-XChange?

I'd like to use the portable version, it's much simpler for me, but it should
allow the R-click "Open with" function, like all my other non-installed
programs do.


Thanks and it's a nice program, btw!

[John - Tracker Supp]

Hi - Then you will need to manually select it as your default viewer for PDF files.

Select a PDF file and right click - then 'Open With' and locate the PDF-XChange Viewer 'exe' (PDFXCview.exe) in your system and set the option to 'Always' open with the PDF-XChange Viewer.
HTH

[Wamma]

As I mentioned briefly, that's not possible.

See:
I browse and locate the .exe, then click open but the .exe does not get added to the 'Programs' list.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

When you use "Open With" command, viewer (and any other application) doens't 'register' itself into Open With list for this type of extensions - it is a job of Windows Shell. If it doesn't do this for the viewer, only one possible reason I see - the viewer is located on temporary or removable device.

[Wamma]

OK, thanks.

The viewer is not located on a removable or temporary device.

Here's how my Programs list look like, even after I browsed and located the .exe file of PDF-XChange:


There are two Foxit readers in the list, tho. This is also wrong, as I only have one. Could this be related?
Anyway, I also tried deleting Foxit and it's still the same.

[Podhorny]

Press "Browse", find "PDFXCview.exe" on your hardrive and check " Always use the selected program to open this kind of file ", this should work

[Wamma]

No, if I do that it stays exactly the same as in that picture + the checkmark.
So it will open and set to default to Foxit. The browsing and locating of PDFXCview.exe gets totally ignored.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Looks like windows had store wrong path to your PDF-XChange viewer into registry path (maybe it was moved).
Please check the registry

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXCview.exe
and (if exists)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Applications\PDFXCview.exe

end remove these entries.

HTH

[Wamma]

Aaaahhh, yes.

This did the trick, thanks.

I guess I should've mentioned that I was previously using the installed version.