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Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071) to the Beta Channel, a modest but meaningful update for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 that refines Click to Do selection, softens some visual chrome in File Explorer, and continues Microsoft’s phased “controlled...

When opening a file not already associated with a program, or using the "Open with..." menu in the context menu, I cannot select my own programs to open the file, as clicking "More apps" or "Try an app on this pc" does nothing. This extremely annoying as I cannot open even an image or a text...

Getting this message when I right click on a PDF file in my downloads folder and select "Open with PDF Vista." It says it can't find the PDF folder that I clicked on. Any ideas as to how to solve this?

Recently I started having issues opening Word on my Lenovo computer. Whenever I try to open documents to edit them, I can't find word in the open with folder, and when I could open it in Word, it always said things like "package not registered" or "package could not be found". What should I do?

I backed up my jason bookmarks from Firefox I made a mistake and used word pad to open with I want to go back and have it as Firefox has it like this bookmarks-2019-10-28.json how do I get rid of word pad open with icon go back to the way Fire fox has it ?

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"...

Hello Windows 7 I seem to remember had a place you could go to instruct windows to use a certain program to open a file. Is there such a place in Windows 10? When I double click on a downloaded zip file for example, Windows gives me Adobe which, of course, doesn't work. When I right click to...

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...

I can't figure out how to add my own app to the 'Open with' dialogue box (below). I want to open files with an .spv file type with an app. I compiled with Visual C++. In other words I want my app to open when I double-click on any file ending in .spv. It works fine from the command line...

As you know some file may be opened by multiple installed programs. Assume I have 3 picture viewers installed for viewing *.jpg files. Currently the default program for opening these *.jpg is "aaa.exe" In the future I want to let the *.jpg open (by double clicking in Windows Explorer) by a...

Hi all: I have the strangest problem. If I double click a .txt file, it opens a Command Prompt window rather than the .txt file! If I use right click, open with, choose default program, the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is grayed out. If I select...

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When I right-click on the file and select Open with..., FileMaker Pro isn't listed as a Recommended Program or Other Program. When I Browse and select FileMaker Pro.exe, nothing happens. The file type doesn't become associated with the program and FMP isn't added as a Recommended or Other...

I usually open my files for Word and Excel from Windows Explorer or by clicking on the file in the Recent Activity screen within the software itself. My Excel files won't open from within Windows Explorer now because I have three links to Microsoft Excel in the Open with dialogue box, one for...

Hi - I am trying to use the "Open With" option in order to open a photo in Photoshop Elements 11. However, I'm having trouble. Just the program will open but it won't automatically open the photo (I can open photos from within the program by going to File - Open just fine). In a...

Hello all: Running Win7 Ultimate 64Bit. I recently installed adobe photoshop cs6. When viewing .jpg files in explorer they are associated with windows photoviewer. If I right click on a .jpg file and go to open with, the CS6 executable does not appear, so I select "choose default program"...

I just did a clean install of windows 7 and now I have a problem with file associations. The thing is. avi files for instance are set to open with WMP but I want them to open with BSplayer. If I click "open with" I have the recomended options MWP and WMC but Bsplayer isn't there nor under...

Hello, The problem I am having occured after I installed a trial version of Office 365. I found that the file association for xls files was still Libre Office. I went to "Open with>>>Choose default program" and made the mistake of going into the C: drive and selecting an .exe called OSPREARM...

I wanted to open an .nfo file in Windows 7 so I did what I did with XP... I right clicked on the file, went to "open with..." expecting to see a whole list of programs so I could pick Wordpad and, guess what... it's not there. Not only is Wordpad not there, but nothing is there. My only option...

i have a number of GIF images on my computer. for some reason they open in Internet Explorer rather than Windows Photo Viewer like other image extensions do. Can anyone tell me how to view GIFs in Windows Photo Viewer? Cause I can't seem to find it when i go to Open With. Thanks in advance.