default programs

Hi I'm not able to change my default app for opening photos to Photoshop? While there are some default formats that are set to Photoshop, things like .Jpg and .Jpeg are set to Windows Photo and don't change when I try and change them. I was not able to change .Tiff to use Photoshop as default...

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...

I've run into a really, really annoying problem. There are a handful of Twitter desktop apps I installed ages ago because Twitter borked the web-interface at one point... I was never satisfied with any of the apps, and Twitter fixed what they'd broken in the Web interface, so I eventually went...

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...

Is there away to select Edge as the program to open a file? I have a few .SWF game files on my laptop. If I open Edge, and insert the path to the .SWF file, Edge opens the file and I can play the game. But, I can find no way to select Edge as the default app to open the .SWF file. Any advice...

hi, Sorry for the confusing title. I could not make it easier to understand. Well, suppose there are two programs installed in my pc to open PDF file. (adobe and foxit) Foxit is set as default program to open pdf files. Now I want to open pdf file with adobe but I dont want to use "open with"...

I can't seem to find a Power Point Viewer for Windows 10. Any advice will be appreciated. Regards, Jim Edit: When I open a PPS file, I get a message, "This app can't run on your PC. To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher." But, if I open the PPS Viewer in the Start...

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...

OK, When using Google Chrome, Twitch or YouTube or pretty much anything, my computer will freeze for 40 seconds and then come back. I have been using Microsoft Edge for 2 days and no freezes. (with a little waterfox) SO, now, the only google browser I have installed is Google Chrome portable...

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...

Hi I have not been on here for ages. Greetings Windows 10. I cannot set a default browser or a picture viewer in settings/default apps. I could before the A/update. Any ideas please

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...

Hello and greetings to All, As of late windows 10 shows error on trying to access default programs like Photos, Music, Video etc. This app can't open ...can't be opened with using the Built-in Administrator account. Sign in with a different account and try again. I have enabled the options...

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...

One morning recently, I found that during the night an update had occurred and rebooted my pc without asking me for confirmation. The reboot caused it to come up in Linux, because I use the grub loader and have Linux as the default. When I rebooted into Windows, it finished the update, which...

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...

Hi Now that I have Windows 10 installed out of the Insider Program, I've found one problem that I can't find a solution for. This isn't a major deal, but I did have this working in the previous install. I want to set WinAmp as my default music player as I did in my last install. The problem...

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...