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I am trying to use Sumatra as the default preview pane reader in XYPlorer, while keeping Acrobat as the default program to view and edit PDF files.

For this, I have found used ShellExView to find the CLSID for the SumatraPDF Preview Shell Extension and am trying to add the following extension to the Previewed Formats:
Unfortunately, that just results in the following error message:
What can I do to enable previewing PDF files in XYPlorer using Sumatra?

Thanks.

You can only add this to the "User-Defined Preview Handlers" category, not to any other (they will only accept file extensions)...

Hi highend,

Somehow I missed out on thanking you for your time and suggestions. I tried out your suggestion in July, but somehow could not get it to work. I guess, the problem lay more in my inexperience than in the suggestion.

Tentatively, I have given up on the PDF preview and simply double-click the file to check out the first page, if required. Will try out your suggestion again, during the X'mas break. :-)

Thank you for trying to help me out.

highend wrote: ↑19 Jul 2020 08:35 You can only add this to the "User-Defined Preview Handlers" category, not to any other (they will only accept file extensions)...

Need to use Sumatra for ePub Previews

I use this tool to assign preview handler from the installed list.
https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/archiv ... ion-editor
Works perfect here and no need for any Registry searching and maipulation.

I have SumatraPDF assigned for PDFs in Windows
and set the PDF-XChange previewer for previewing PDFs.
So double clicking opens SumatraPDF and preview is made with PDF-XChange.

Horst wrote: ↑24 Mar 2021 18:10 I use this tool to assign preview handler from the installed list.
https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/archiv ... ion-editor
Works perfect here and no need for any Registry searching and maipulation.

I have SumatraPDF assigned for PDFs in Windows
and set the PDF-XChange previewer for previewing PDFs.
So double clicking opens SumatraPDF and preview is made with PDF-XChange.

Wow. Interesting and probably ancient from 2006 and maybe EOL like RichCopy & RoboCopy.

Horst wrote: ↑24 Mar 2021 18:10 I use this tool to assign preview handler from the installed list.
https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/archiv ... ion-editor
Works perfect here and no need for any Registry searching and maipulation.

I have SumatraPDF assigned for PDFs in Windows
and set the PDF-XChange previewer for previewing PDFs.
So double clicking opens SumatraPDF and preview is made with PDF-XChange.

Sounds interesting but when I run PreviewHandlerEditor.exe I see this: Strange, because I have .NET 4.8.03761 on my system. Any idea?

You need to enable the .NET Framework 3.5 feature via Control panel - Turn Windows features on or off... - Wizard

Thanks. I assumed .NET was downward compatible.

Not with 3.5^^

It forced my to download stuff for minutes, and then this: Link goes to this page where my error code does not exist: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/troubl ... tion-error

Thank you, Windows. Just great.

admin wrote: ↑24 Apr 2021 12:48 It forced my to download stuff for minutes, and then this:
2021-04-24_124522.png

Link goes to this page where my error code does not exist: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/troubl ... tion-error

Thank you, Windows. Just great.

First I would try it after a reboot.
If this doesn't help try an Offline Installation of .NET 3.5
https://sourceforge.net/projects/framework-3-offline/

OK, I'll try that later, thanks.

Is this method working well still?

With 32 / 64 bit versions of XYP | PDF X | Sumatra ?

Which combinations of the above 32 vs/w 64 would work or not with XYP?

All combinations work

Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | [x] Use 64-bit preview handlers for preview
Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | [x] Fall back to preview handlers of the other bitness

should be ticked if you use e.g. Sumatra 64-bit