Default programs are used by the Windows operating system to determine the program that needs to be opened when a user wants to perform a specific action on the operating system. This can be a click on a link in an email program, a click on an email address or a click on a playlist [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Let us say that you are in a situation where you would like to change some default programs temporarily in Windows. You might want to do this to test out a new program without having to use the right-click context menu or the program’s file browser to open files with it or you might be [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Default programs in Windows are those programs that are started when opening or editing certain file types or protocols. It can be an image viewer or editor for image formats or a web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer for the http protocol. I recently encountered a problem in Windows 7 that was driving me [...]

Categories: Software, Windows