Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

If you cannot change the default app by File Type in Windows 11/10 then this post is sure to help you resolve the issue. Windows 11/10 provides built-in options to change the default app(s) to open ...

In Windows 11 or Windows 10, you can Configure, Export, Import File Associations and even set or change file associations and extensions using GUI, but there is no option provided to delete an ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: When I download any .pdf file it tries to open in word. I know I have some setting wrong. How do I change it?

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I’m getting the dreaded “Explorer.EXE, This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this ...

For some reason yesterday the file associations on my Windows XPSP2 laptop lost their icons, the associations are not broken, but the icon is just the plain "no association" icon (see picture ...