![]() I’m a fan of Google Chrome, but I really dislike having additional software installed that isn’t required for the task I suggest you uncheck that box and if you really want to install Google Chrome, just go to /chrome to grab a copy. Pay attention to that middle panel, which switches to default installing Google Chrome as part of the process. Why it can’t automatically identify operating system and language from your Web browser is unclear to me, but perhaps this is so people can download versions for computers other than the one they’re using currently? In any case, it’s easy enough, specify your operating system, specify your primary language and it’ll offer the latest version: ![]() That’s easily done by going to, which offers this simple way to identify which version of the program you want to download: Instead, let’s go straight to Adobe and get Acrobat Reader for Windows. You can choose “Search the Microsoft Store” but I’ll tell you in advance that there are a ton of options and none of them are actually from Adobe: You can see that on this particular Windows 10 system I have no independent PDF programs, just two browsers that can handle the file format. To start, right-click on a PDF document to see what programs you have that can understand PDF file format: How to Make Chrome the Default PDF Viewer on Windows 11? Sounds like that’s what you are using at work too, so let’s get it installed on your home PC too. Modern Web browsers can show PDF docs – including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge – but I still have a bias towards the free Adobe program PDF Reader (known more properly as Acrobat Reader, as we’ll see). ![]() Heck, even Web pages can embed PDFs, actually, so even in that case, it’s important to have a good tool. Which leads to the observation that it’s pretty important to have a good PDF reader on your computer if you do anything other than just read Web pages. Even governments now use PDF for forms and documents. Now, however, if you search for user guides, manuals, books, even comic books, you’ll find that there are millions of PDF documents available. Prior to PDF sharing formatted documents meant that both parties needed to have the same commercial program (typically Microsoft Word) and that it was difficult to create read-only versions to ensure that things wouldn’t be modified. From its invention back in 1993 as part of Adobe Acrobat, the Portable Document Format (PDF) has proven to be a great success.
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