Windows 10 bundles a number of default apps, including, Groove Music, and Movies & TV as your default web browser, music, and video player — just to name a few. Although, if you prefer to have other apps as default, you can use the Settings app, sometimes the new configuration won't apply, or you may even get an error that won't let you set your own default programs.Indeed, it's something that Microsoft has to spend more time trying to fix, but there is a workaround to this problem. You can simply use Control Panel to set your apps as default.In this, we'll walk you through the easy steps to set default apps using Control Panel when the Settings app fails to apply your configurations.

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Corky, you are right – except for the majority of Home users who inadvertently changed stuff in the initial Windows 10 and broke things without knowing how to fix them. The latest Win10 fixes things for them.Peter (NL) – To me, Windows 10 is more stable now with the new drivers, and more user-friendly too in some ways like the High Contrast Black Theme optionally provided. If you want safer, try using EMET for Windows 10. Of course there is a tradeoff – inconvenience and your time to set up for your applications. Really?And for that OS you actually PAY?Linux is totally free, and no spying on you by default installation at all. For this OS you actually pay, and they just re-enable your privacy settings they have no business touching.It only will go inviting for a new kind of software: a anti-windows-spy tool that auto-updates and turns all that crap off againautomatically.

1. I am struggling right now to find a quick/easy way to change user default apps. Browser to IE 11 Mail = Outlook I am not making any hea. Home Windows Windows 10. Win10 - GPO/Script to auto change default apps? This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see.
2. Note: You can’t leave the default app blank when you change the default app for a protocol or file type. You have to choose a new app and set it as default. You have learned to Manage Default Apps Through Settings in Windows 10 furthermore Set, Change pursuant to File Type, designate them by File Type or Protocol.

But that is no solution to the manually installed drivers that are been “upgraded” to Microsoft ones and other settings described.At least with Windows 7 I only had to uninstall 4 windows updates to stay clear of that crap. This has to be one of the most annoying OS “upgrades” I have ever had to deal with. There some great enhancements. But with five different computers in the house, it became a sleepless night of sheer frustration and repeated exclamations of. Not only were there the aforementioned reversions and undoing of settings and whatnot. I found that every bloody one of my wired Ethernet or wireless network drivers were reset to M$ idea of what the settings should be. Graphics drivers whether the be Nvidia, AMD or Intel (of which I had the most current, fine tuned and working just finethank you), were replaced with M$ idea of what I should have.

Jun 22, 2016  How to reset all default apps in Windows 10. If you have changed your default apps too many times and just want to restart from scratch, you can easily reset all the default apps to the Windows 10.

And the settings were all reset as well. Each “upgrade” took well over an hour and an additional hour or soeachto re-establish all the individual software, hardware and privacy settings.

The only Apple product in the house is my daughters MacBook Pro. While not (yet), a Mac fan Boy, every OS “upgrade” has been smooth and has not required me to go back and manually undo or redo practically everything.Jeez what a nightmare.

Use the feedback app to kindly ask Microsoft to leave our existing user settings alone.That’s about the only way to actually communicate with MS at this point. Otherwise, they really don’t care. With enough requests to keep the settings and default apps alone they might listen and add that as an install option when updating to new builds. Right now, during the update, there are only two buttons to click on.

Program Not Showing Up In Default Programs Windows 10

They can add a third one to keep current settings. Failure to do so on their part will only fuel the desire for PC users to try Linux (Mint is pretty good) or switch to Chromebooks or Macs. I work on Windows computers for a living and hate what Microsoft does now with the build updates.

I tell our customers to run Spybot Anti-Beacon and click on the recommended settings. It turns off most of the telemetry but doesn’t change the apps. That needs to be manually changed (again) in default apps. After updating to 1511 from a version which I had only just managed to get working properly (except for not being able to sign into store on PCs main account) I find that the store is working now.

Cant Change Default Apps Windows 10

That’s great but sadly my display, graphics and video are not working well at all. They’re now worse than the previous version that took 10 days to fix. Video driver has reverted to a 2006 version which strikes me as odd on an OS built ‘from the ground up’.

I have tried reinstalling all the various drivers to the solutions I found on the pre-update version but still issues every 5 minutes and can no longer play any games because the video card is suddenly not up to the required standard. Thanks Microsoft. Bought a new PC a little over 2 weeks ago for a lot of money and have been able to use it hassle free for 1.5 days!

What a joke. I’m furious with this new update, not only have my defaults been reset, but when i change them back to my preferred programs they will not stay, they revert back either immediately or after a day, this is for two things, images, they continuously open with the photo app, i removed it with powershell only to find next day it had been reinstalled with the word new beside it in the all apps list in the start menu.PDF’s insisted in opening with Microsoft edge. I got round that issue after a few days by reinstalling the update, PDF’s have managed to stay opening with Acrobat.

Though i keep expecting it to change suddenly!i spoke with Microsoft support who at first tried to say my new hp envy 17 wasn’t compatible with windows 10, i laughed at him as i had been using 10 successfully since the day it was first released on the same laptop. Then another tech said she could fix it in the registry but there would be a charge!i argued it was MS update issues so why should i pay for a fix, i asked for the path in the registry to fix it myself but she refused.i have used windows for years and have been a tech supporter on a very large forum, after my call with MS i feel very let down by them, im studying at University now and need to have things run well to save time,not spend a weekend troubleshooting to no avail.oh! Also there were no restore points either so when i tried to roll back to an earlier build all it did was restore to a point AFTER the update,i’m going to have to clean install in the holidays when i have more time. Thank goodness I’m not alone! Since the update some much-used default apps have been changed and, like you, no matter what I try I can’t get the default apps to stick. I figured it was a registry problem as the changes I make only apply for a few minutes, or until I use the app in question. Example: TXT files should open with AkelPad – PDFs should open with Acrobat – JPGs should open with Windows Photo Viewer.

All these worked fine until this latest update. Now, even after telling Win10 to use these apps by default it won’t. It’s made working with this computer a real chore, and I have to figure out how to fix this somehow. Hi Ulf I’ve not been able to resolve the default apps problem.

To add to my list of annoyances, HTML files insist on being opened by MS Edge (which I loathe) and no-matter what I do I can’t change the default app to Firefox. I have to right-click – ‘open with’ – ‘choose another app’ to open several file types in my preferred apps.

To anyone who may think I’m dim yes I tick ‘always use this app’ – it makes no difference. This is darned annoying and is only an issue since the Win10 update.

If you, or anyone else, figures out the solution please post it here I’d really appreciate it. Same problem with PDF’s. I had installed Windows 10 and changed the default to Adobe Acrobat (a real program). It worked fine until the last update. Belarc tells me I haveWindows 8 (x64) (build 9200)Install Language: English (United States)System Locale: English (United States)Installed: 11:02:54 PMNow all PDFs come up in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Went back and changed the PDF app to Acrobat, and immediately it reverted in the Default Apps window to Reader DC. Not sure if it is a Windows problem or something Adobe has put in place.

OneNote 2016 + Outlook 2010 (64bit) + Win 10Both OneNote and Outlook work properly by themselves.Sometimes, I have the opportunity to insert a reminder from a website directly into my Outlook 2010. That works fine, too, i.e., Firefox detects Outlook as my default email program.Problem: in OneNote 2016 there is an item in the Home tab to send a page to Outlook.

On a prior machine running Win 7, this worked fine.On my new Win 10 machine, I get an error message when I attempt to email a page from OneNote “Microsoft Outlook is not properly installed or has not been started for the first time. You can install or repair Outlook or set a different default email program and then try again.”Outlook 2010 works fine in all respects.I have run the repair on Outlook 2010 from the Control Panel.I have another program, called CardScan, that enables me to interface with Outlook to send an email message. That program also detects outlook as my default email program, too.What is my remedy for OneNote and Outlook?