Windows 8 chooses its default players to run your music and video, but what if you want different programs to open your files? Here's how to change them. John Thompson John Thompson has been addicted ...

In Windows there are certain programs that are configured as the default one to use for certain tasks. Windows will then use these default programs when a person performs a particular action in ...

Windows 8.1 comes with several default applications, including Mail, Music, Videos, Photos, Games and Camera. These default programs are arranged on your Start screen; left-clicking an icon opens the ...

One of the common things we do is to set the default applications, with which we would like to open files. We usually fix the default browser, the default video player, and so on. In this post, I’ll ...

Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

When you first install Microsoft Office 2007, its programs become the default programs for opening Office files. You can later set other applications as the default programs. OpenOffice is an ...

Every file on your hard drive (.jpeg, .html, and the like) can be associated with a compatible program, which will open that file format by default. Some applications will change a format’s default ...

Windows only: Tiny, portable utility Default Programs Editor makes short work of changing file associations, autoplay settings, and can even change the icon associated with a file type. Once you've ...

macOS comes with a plethora of useful pre-installed apps, all of which make the Mac ready to go as soon as you take it out of the box. But you don’t have to use these programs if you don’t want to – ...

Default Programs Editor is a powerful but simple file association utility for Windows 10/8/7/Vista. It is a context menu editor, an autoplay editor, and a default programs association editor. This ...

Likely fed up with the new Windows 11 default apps interface, Mozilla has bypassed Microsoft's policies to make it easier for users to switch their default browser. In the past, when a Windows ...