Though Windows Media Player is your computer's initial default media program, each subsequent player that you install tries to replace it. After you've installed several players, Windows may associate ...

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 ...

Often when you install a new application, it asks you to make it the default program for certain file types. If you're too quick with the "Enter" key during installation, you might inadvertently grant ...

Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry. Windows Terminal ...

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 ...

Like many Windows 8 users, I spend most of my time using Desktop mode, which affords me a more Windows 7-like experience. However, every so often the OS kicks me into an app that I don’t especially ...

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 ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows 8, Windows will automatically open that file using a program that has been associated with that file's extension. There may come a time, though, that you ...

Did you ever notice that when you install a new software program, the installation program asks you a lot of questions? The most important one is, "Where do you want to put this puppy?" And then the ...

I just reinstalled 2K on a new drive, I want to keep my system stuff on a small partition (C and have other program files on a seperate partition (). I have power toys on the machine and it gives ...