Why are all my downloads turned into pdf files?

Answer (1 of 2): For windows Go to “control panel” then select “default programs” from the list. Choose “set your default programs”. Then select the word app you have on your computer, say, “Word ″ then select “set this program as default”. You’ll notice the task bar will be refreshed and. Thx. Cynthia Holmes. Edit Answer (for another minute) File association is controlled by the operating system. Applications (Adobe's or otherwise) do not. How to set or change is discussed in the OS Help. If, after doing what is discussed in the OS Help there is still an issue it is very likely that the computer has malware on board. Probably you accidentally associated them with Word, that's all. Go to Acrobat, Edit - Preferences - General and click the "Select Default PDF Handler" to associate them back with Acrobat. Visit my custom-made PDF scripts website: bltadwin.ru

Files from the Internet and from other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your computer. This is also commonly the case with email attachments or files you've downloaded. To help protect your computer, files from these potentially unsafe locations are opened in Protected View. I tried the above. The problem still persists. In my Downloads folder, all the docx and xlsx files have white icons, though they open correctly. They remain so until the whole folder loads. After minutes the icons become colored as usual. This was not the case earlier as the Downloads folder used to load instantaneously. On my new Windows 7 Home laptop I'm unable to download big files as downloads stop after some time. I know the problem is not with my ISP as BT downloads never stop like this and I'm able to download huge (1GB) files over BT without any issue.

When i look for a solution on the internet it says get a converter programme to turn pdf into jpeg. But there is something fundamentally wrong when my computer has done the conversion without me knowing and without me doing anything different. I fear that all my high resolution photos are now 'lost' in low resolution pdf files. You need to reassign Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader as the default PDF handler Open up Adobe Reader (not Acrobat, if you have it on your system); go to "Edit", "Preferences", "General"; at the bottom of the General settings screen to the right "Select Default PDF Handler"; pull down and choose the PDF handler (e.g., Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader). This might be caused due to corrupted default file association on the computer. Perform the following troubleshooting methods: Method 1: I would suggest you to set default file association and then check if this fixes the issue. Refer to the link “Change which programs Windows uses by default” to know how to set a default program. Method 2.