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HP ZBook Studio x360 G5
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi guys,

 

When I try and open PDFs downloaded from the internet, they automatically open in a Sure Click browser window. This is despite me setting PDFs to open in my standard viewer (PDF X-Change).

 

I want downloaded PDFs to open in my standard viewer, not a Sure Click window. Does anyone know how to do this?

 

I know I can right click on the PDF and select "remove protection" and then it will open on my standard viewer, but it is a time consuming work-around when I'm dealing with many PDFs. I want the PDFs to download and auto-open in my standard viewer.

 

I'm aware Sure Click is doing this for my own safety, but the PDFs I'm downloading are from sites I trust.

 

Thanks!

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You can whitelist the sites that you assume to be safe in the HP Sure Click Console...

 

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Beyond that, you would have to uninstall the software as it is designed to protect you from malicious code hidden in the documents that could do harm to your computer.

 
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Hi S33,

 

Thanks for the response. I had already whitelisted the website but it still opened the PDFs in the browser.

 

I understand that Sure Click is doing this for my own protection, but I would prefer that it allows PDFs to open in my default viewer if I've whitelisted the website. Because it doesn't provide this functionality, I have disabled Sure Click.

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