default programs

Hello all, I wanted to change the system default mail program to Thunderbird. I went to settings > default programs and then when I clicked Mail app the only option I got was to choose from some web browsers and... "SEARCH IN MICROSOFT STORE". There was no option to choose an app from my disc...

Hi. I wanted to change default mail program to Thunderbird. I went to settings > default programs and then when I clicked Mail app the only option I got was to choose from some web browsers and... "SEARCH IN MICROSOFT STORE". There was no option to choose an app from my disc. What worse the same...

Hi. I wanted to change default mail program to Thunderbird. I went to settings > default programs and then when I clicked Mail app the only option I got was to choose from some web browsers and... "SEARCH IN MICROSOFT STORE". There was no option to choose an app from my disc. What worse the same...

I want to send a video (1 MB) by email but a message tells me I have to create a file association. I select videos in the default programs and check the drop down list but there is no email to choose so I cannot send the video. I found no way to resize the video. I would appreciate any help in...

I am unable to persuade W10 to accept VLC media player as default music/video program. Can anybody advise me? It's installed on Drive D, not the Windows Drive - I don't know if this makes any difference. (C:\ is a small SSD which I want to reserve for stuff which needs to load fast)

After a bout with some malware, I found that I have two entries for Firefox in my list of default programs in Win 10 settings. One won't let me pick Firefox as the default browser when I choose that one. I want to remove it from the list. Is there a way? See the screenshot. Thanks!

Hello, This feature always work in my computer. Now he doesn´t work and i don´t know why. When i click a video with the right bottom of the mouse I choose "Open With". In the next screen I choose "Choose another app" Then I choose "MPC-HC" and I select "Always use this app to open .mp4 files" It...

Assume I run a program from USB flash drive or network drive. It is not installed on the local Win 7 computer but it works. Hence when I go to menu START--->Control Panel--->Programs--->Default programs this program is NOT listed there as a possible application. So it cannot be defined as a...

I have problems to set an eMail client (e.g. Thunderbird) on my 64bit Win 7 system for handling all "mailto" links. It is often recommended to go to Control Panel --> Set Default programs or Control Panel ---> "Associate a file type or protocol with a program" and assign the (new) email...

Hello, I have this problem: Recently I switched to new browser "Yandex", and I really like it. It's faster the Chrome and has everything I need, however I have one little problem: It makes itself as default program for some file associations, for example: PNG, PSD, PDF, FLV & etc... And I don't...

When I click on a folder (not a program shortcut) on the desktop a dialog pops up saying "This file does not have an association to perform this action. Please install a program is already installed, create a association in the Default Programs in the control panel. In file explorer, New Folder...

When I double click in WinExplorer on an *.mp4 video file a popup appears asking me if I want to play the video with a certain program (here with well known VLC video player). As you can see in the attached snapshot I checked the checkbox to ALWAYS use VLC for opening the video. BUT: When I...

Hello, yesterday my computer got updated without me noticing, I didn't shut it down for a night just put it to sleep. After waking it up some issues occurred: Firstly I couldn't adjust my screen brightness nor in menus, nor with keyboard (fixed after a restart). Computer was dead slow...

I am running Windows 10 Pro on an i7 Dual Core 3.5mb with 16gb memory on an Aesus Box. I have Adobe Acrobat 10 installed on my system. Adobe Reader XI is also installed (by some program) on my system, and is the default programs for .pdf files. I have accessed the Set Associations File through...

Hi Everybody, I have a strange issue, and would like some direction in solving it. I use "Netbeans", which is an IDE program that I can use to build web sites using PHP., and I would like to make "Netbeans" to be the default program that I can trigger by double clicking on any *.php file The...

First off I'm running Win8.1 Situation: Well I have a Gmod server and I'm trying to convert some of these gma files with a converter. I need to open the file with the converter to have them convert but whenever I would choose to pick the converter it would still be the same and not open it or...

For some unknown reason, my image file associations in Windows Explorer keep getting undone, such that they show up in Explorer without an associated application (or occasionally with a wrong association). For example, when I examine the properties of any .jpg file, the "Open With:" property...

Okay, since there are many questions on this topic, none exactly the same as mine, I'd like to make myself perfectly clear. I know about Default Programs, and I know about Autoplay settings in the Control Panel. What I want to achieve is use Media Player Classic (comes with the K-Lite codec...

Ok, to cut to the chase I accidentally changed the default program to open .bat files to note pad. How would I change it back so it would execute the command? I googled it, nothing that helped was found. I tried deleting the User Choice and .bat in the registry. Still didn't work. Any .bat files...

Hi I've had Belarc Advisor on my computer for years, but in Windows 10 I'm having a strange problem. When I open it, it opens in Openoffice Writer instead of my browser? It' supposed to open in you browser by default. I have looked for some place to tell it what I want the default program to...