Windows corruption issue

[Cat Turbo]

Hello

I’ve had a similiar issue: It wasn’t possible for me to change the standard browser.

After a little search in the Internet, I’ve found that this issue is common for Windows 10. So personally I think there isn’t any system corruption.

Here my solution: First make a reset to default apps in the Windows 10 configuration pannel (Windows 10 configuration pannel => System  => default apps  => go back to windows 10 default apps). Then click on the link whih a name like “choose default apps for apps” (at the bottom of the page, it’s a hyperlink). A configuration pannel from windows 7 will open. Here you can then set your app as a default app. After a restart your defaults apps should now be changed.

I hope that this solution will work for you.

with best regards
Cat Turbo

[Chris Clayton]

Yes, you are right — good!  a few default apps which I had tried to set before have appeared such as Thunderbird for email, and Maxthon as my browser. However, I do not seem to have the system working quite as it should in getting apps accepted as defaults. The main problem is that clicking on a file type which either has no default set, or an unwanted one (which is very often Media Player) brings up the Choose a default window but it only has either no options or just one option, the unwanted one. For example I want Grove for music but am only offered Media Player. I want Photos for (yes, you guessed) photos. I have several apps for videos I could choose from, my preference being VLC or Parma, but have not been offered a choice. Plus I have not found how to add apps from the Store or elsewhere in the PC, plainly an important feature .

I am guessing, as you suggested, that this is not Windows corruption but lack of knowledge on my part re how to set it up correctly? Can you advise?

[Cat Turbo]

Yeah, I will help you.
I’ve made two little videos so that you better understand what I mean. Sorry, I’m not a native English speaker, so my English isn’t very well and additionally the language of my windows is German…. But the optinons are the same in the English version of Windows as in the German one. If you like I can also try to explain you the steps in French, if this language suits you better.
So in the first video “open file” I show you how to open a file with a specific software, to get more options choose “search other apps on this pc”, then the explorer will open and you can point a file to an programm exe to open the file with the choosen software. Cross the checkbox to allways open this type of files with the software.
In the second video I show you how to configure a software (like the photo app) so that it will be associated with all the formats that it can open. For this go into the Windows 10 configuration pannel, click on system, default apps, and click on the last hyperlink. Here you choose the app/software and then you click on “choose this programm as default” (first option). If you choose the first option, windows will automatically associate the common file formats which the software can open with this software. If you want more controll, you chose the second option (aka “chose default for this software), here you can chose the file formats which will be associated with the software. So now you can for exemple uncheck the photo option for chrome, so you go to Chrome, and choose here the second box, then a new windows will open and you remove the cross on the .jpg file format checkbox. for exemple.
I hope that this helps you, write if you need more help
greetings from Switzerland
Cat Turbo

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