Yes. Foxit will make itself the default for .pdf files when you install it. Just double click on a .pdf file and it will open with Foxit reader. If not, right click on the .pdf file and choose open with and choose Foxit and check the box to use Foxit for this kind of file in the future.

It is also very easy to update. Just click on HELP and Check for updates... choose what you want and you are good to go.

Bob

I want to thank those who told me about Foxit.It was a great help.just one more thing.I really want to get rid of adobe.Has anyone heard or used "The perfect Uninstaller"?

Hi,

I, too, got Foxit based on suggestions in recent threads. It did make itself the default .pdf reader, but just this moring I went to my Lavabit email account where I received a file labelled PHP -- I'm no expert about such things, so I'm not sure how that differs from .pdf. Anyway, when I went to open it, it did NOT open with Foxit, but with Adobe ! All I could figure to do was download the file to My Documents where I had to right-click and then manually select the program to open the file (where I chose Foxit). Worked great from that point on.

But why didn't it open with Foxit by default ?

I get this all the time when I open Foxit but think unless I OK it, It will not automatically work when a .pdf file is called upon to be opened.
Am afraid of not knowing how to get Adobe back to default (where to set it) incase I like it better than Foxit?

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Just uninstall Foxit and Adobe Reader will be default again.

Thanks bob,
How stupid can I be????????

I just noticed something that turned me off on Foxit.
It doesn't have thumbnail pictures of the pages that I do find useful when I am searching for a page.
May sound odd but I have used it that way.

Urlee you can open Adobe and make it the default the same as you can with FoxIt. I've been using FoxIt for a number of years now have had no issues with it.

Bob

Urlee, another alternative to Adobe Reader is PDF-XChange Viewer. It has the thumbnails and in my opinion is a much better choice than Adobe Reader.

Hi Bob,
Thank you.
Yes, I had posted in a previous thread that my friend uses PDF-XChange Viewer. 4MB download.
Next time I get over there, I shall see what it looks like on her computer.