Windows 10: Windows 10 Update Broke a Lot of PDF files

Ever since this latest Windows update - I have hundreds of PDF files that WILL NOT OPEN. (I have Windows 10 Professional)


In Adobe, I get a message that says it's "either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged." Other programs that read PDFs will give other error messages, but the effect is still the same - the file won't open. ALL OF THESE FILES WORKED AND OPENED THE DAY BEFORE THE UPDATE (to be fair, it's not like I opened up every single file the day before the update, but I never had this problem before and files that I did open up aren't working now), something about the update broke them. The weird thing is that this problem doesn't affect all my PDF files, but many many many of them. I haven't been able to figure out a rhyme or reason yet for which ones will open and which ones won't.


This seems a lot like a problem I experienced after a previous Windows update a year or so ago that would give me the same error message for my Excel files. Back then, I was able to roll back the update and all the files magically worked again. Eventually something was patched on the Windows side and the updates no longer gave me an issue. Apparently, Windows won't let me do the same thing with this update. I'm stuck with it.


So throwing this out to the great hive-mind to see if anyone has any ideas.


~Dave

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Pdf file

Hello Bhaumik,

For you to download and access the PDF files, please follow the steps below:

• Please download and install the UC browser and Xodo PDF Reader & Editor from Windows Store.
• Once installed, please download the PDF file from a web page using the
  UC browser by tapping the PDF file you wish to download > Click
  Regular Download.
• Once the PDF file is downloaded, please go to App list >
  Xodo application > Menu icon > Recent Documents > tap the
  PDF file you've downloaded from UC browser.

Please note that if you have an existing PDF Reader application installed on your phone, we suggest that you uninstall it first.


Let us know if this works for you.

 

Searching in PDF?

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