Error With Pdf Preview Handler Windows 7
Avoid Overage Charges Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek How to Fix PDF Previews in Outlook or Explorer on 64-bit Windows Having issues with your PDF previews working with Microsoft Outlook or Windows Explorer on a 64-bit version of Windows? Turns out the problem is that Adobe sucks, but a quick registry hack can save the day. For example, when I try to preview a PDF in Outlook, I get the message "This file cannot be previewed because of an error with the following previewer: PDF Preview Handler for Vista". Fix PDF Previews the Easy Way Just download the Adobe Reader preview handler x64 fixer by Leo Davidson, click the Apply Fix button… And you can immediately begin previewing PDF files again. Yay! Download the Adobe PDF Preview Fixer from pretentiousname.com Fixing the Problem the Manual Way If you'd rather not use some application to make these changes, you can make a manual fix by opening up regedit.exe and browsing down to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193} Then change the AppID to the following (make sure you're on the right key, as indicated in the screenshot). {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C} That should be it. All done! Credits Unlike most of the registry hacks on this site, we didn't come up with this one! In fact, it was Leo Davidson who figured it out and wrote the easy fixer utility, and Ed Bott, author of the excellent Windows 7 Inside Out book who pointed us towards the fix. You should subscribe to their sites, and buy Ed's book! (seriously, it's an excellent book) JOIN THE DISCUSSION Tweet Lowell Heddings, better known online as the How-To Geek, spends all his free time bringing you fresh geekery on a daily basis. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like. Published 12/15/09 SHOW ARCHIVED READER COMMENTS
which hopefully fixes PDF thumbnails appearing for the wrong files. Note the instructions about clearing your thumbnail cache.] [Update 10/Feb/2011: Just a note to say that, yes, the fix works with Adobe Reader X.] [Update 02/May/2010: Added a note that the preview handler fix may still need to be run once, even after installing Adobe Reader 9.3.2, on machines which were upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. Thanks to Jonathan Van Dusen for the heads up.] [Update 28/Apr/2010: Page and tools updated for Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and Office 2010 RTM. Summary here. Thanks to Alex Bantzhaff!] [Update 06/Feb/2010: Thumbnails fix updated: Workaround for black thumbnails caused by bug in Windows shell.] [Update 04/Feb/2010: Thumbnails fix http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7682/how-to-fix-pdf-previews-in-outlook-or-explorer-on-64-bit-windows/ added.] [Update 25/Jan/2010: Fix for preview handler in 64-bit Office 2010. Thanks to Winfried Pohl!] [Update 15/Dec/2009: Added automated fix tool.] [Update 15/Sep/2009: Added extra info that helps in some scenarios.] [Update 11/Sep/2009: Added another rendering bug in the preview handler to the Hey, Adobe... list.] Contents: Introduction Preview Handler Thumbnails Download the fixes Donate Detail on the preview handler fix tool Fixing the preview handler by hand or group policy Detail on the thumbnail fix https://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/ Hey, Adobe... Rant Thank you Introduction: This page contains simple fixes for Adobe's PDF preview handler and thumbnails on 64-bit versions of Windows. Before I looked into this, people had been complaining about it for over two years with no official response. Only the thumbnails fix is still needed, except if you upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, where both fixes may still be needed. Half a year after I published the information, Adobe finally incorporated the preview handler fix (but no thumbnails fix, and they leave the preview handler broken if you upgraded from Vista to Windows 7) into the installer for Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (April 2010). Maybe in 2011 Adobe will manage to fix the thumbnails as well; until then you can get my fix for them below. :-) Preview Handler Preview handlers are lightweight components which let you view various file types within programs like Windows Explorer (in Windows Vista and Windows 7), Outlook 2007/2010 and Directory Opus (via my bundled plugin). Adobe Reader comes with Adobe's PDF preview handler but the installer had a mistake which meant the preview handler did not work on 64-bit systems. It turned out the problem could be fixed via a simple registry change. The change is described below and a small program which performs the fix is also provided for your convenience. Unlike the thum
PDF preview in 64 bitWindows This will fix previews in both Outlook and Windows explorer on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If you get This file cannot be previewed because of an error with the following previewer: PDF Preview Handler for Vista in https://blog.nicholasrogoff.com/2010/01/15/how-to-fix-adobe-pdf-preview-in-64-bit-windows/ outlook when trying to preview PDF’s or just get no previews of PDF’s in explorer.. ..then try the following. Caution: Changing the registry should be done with great care…so make a backup of any changes! Start the Registry http://www.sevenforums.com/software/293008-adobe-x-pro-preview-handler-error-32bit.html editor by using Start->Run (or Windows Key + R) and type regedit and click OK Expanding the tree to locateHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193} and select it. Now to make a backup of the previous settings just in case this does not error with work for you, right-click on the branch in the left pane and select export. Choose a location you can find again later (just in case! Although you should do this for any registry changes too.). You only need to export the selected branch. Windows 7 automatically takes full registry snapshot in case of major problems. Now on the right hand side double-click to edit the AppID value and change it to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}. I preview started working immediately error with pdf even without restarting outlook! However you may need to restart? Now, I can’t take credit for this brilliant solution. I found it at http://bink.nu/news/fix-adobe-pdf-preview-handler-on-64-bit-windows.aspx and only write it again here to make it easier to find for all! Why adobe don’t fix this I am not sure!
Rate this:Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterGoogleMorePrintEmailRedditLike this:Like Loading... Related This entry was posted on January 15, 2010, 8:43 am and is filed under Windows 7. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Comments (2) #1 by designleafmedia on December 15, 2011 - 2:16 am Thank you of wise man. It worked without a restart. I am lucky to have the right OS and bit count. It works! May it work for many more people… I hope. Reply #2 by Dave Watt on November 3, 2014 - 10:24 pm It worked! One slight glitch with the instructions though-in my version of Win7 Home Version, the registry variable was "ProgID" instead of "AppID". Prior to making the change I did update to the latest version of Adobe Reader XI (11). Thanks so much for posting this. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You