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18 18  In Windows 7, there's one place to change your default program settings.
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20 -1. In the Start Menu, select **Default Programs
20 +1. In the Start Menu, select **Default Programs**. **
21 21  **
22 +1. Select **Set your default programs** at the top of the page.
22 22  1. Find the program you want to use for defaults in the list on the left and click it.
23 23  1. In the main section of the window, you'll have two options:
24 24  11. **Set this program as default**, which will take any file types the program lists as things it can open and sets it so they open in that program
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58 58  1. Select **System**
59 59  1. Select** Default Apps** in the left sidebar
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61 -There are a few options you can change on this page, the most likely being **Web Browser**. If you want to change something not listed on this page, select **Set defaults by app**. This is the same menu as in Windows 7, so see above.
62 +There are a few options you can change on this page, the most likely being **Web Browser**. If you want to change something not listed on this page, select **Set defaults by app **at the bottom of the page. This is the same menu as in Windows 7, so see step 3 of the Windows 7 section above.
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76 +== {{id name="Changing-the-Default-Program-for-a-file-type"/}}Changing the Default Program for a file type ==
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78 +In order to change what program a file type opens with:
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80 +1. **right click on the file** that you would like to open.
81 +1. Click on **Properties** at the bottom of the menu.
82 +1. Next "Opens with: ... ", Click on** "Change."**
83 +1. Click on the program you want to set as default. (For PDFs you will want Adobe Reader)
84 +1. Click **OK**. You should now be able to open that file from the program you set it to.
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