How to make Adobe Reader 8 my default one?

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From: Barbara_Eyre
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00

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I went through the FAQ and I honestly did not see this mentioned, so please forgive me if I missed it somewhere.

When I want to view pdf files on my computer, I have to manually tell it to view with Adobe Reader 8.1 (via right-click and "view with ..."), as my computer wants to use the default Adobe (icon has pale grey background with the red A vs the dark red background with Reader 8.1).

How do I make my Adobe Reader 8.1 (and any future versions I download) the default one for pdf files? That way I just have to double click on the pdf file to open it, instead of right-clicking all the time.

Thank you in advance!

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