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8 8  Windows has many programs available that can handle your files. You can have several apps that can open a single type of file, like PDFs or text documents, and really only prefer one of them. There are ways to select your default program for different tasks.
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23 -1. Open the Quick Settings panel in the Taskbar (Just to the left of the Date & Time in the bottom-right corner). You can also press the **Windows+A **keys on the keyboard.
24 -1. Click the **All settings **icon (looks like a gear).
25 -1. Click **Apps **in the column on the left.
26 -1. Then, click **Default apps**.
27 -1. Search for the app that you would like to set as the default app. We’ll use the Chrome web browser in the example.
28 -1. Click the app in the search results.
29 -1. Click **Set default**.
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**. **
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22 +1. Select **Set your default programs** at the top of the page.
23 +1. Find the program you want to use for defaults in the list on the left and click it.
24 +1. In the main section of the window, you'll have two options:
25 +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
26 +11. **Choose defaults for this program**, which opens a list of all the different file types the program is capable of opening. You can then select any or all of the file types you want to use with this program and press **Save**.
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28 +1111. Select **OK** to finish.
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53 53  = {{id name="Windows-10"/}}Windows 10 =
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57 57  In Windows 10, the default app options are located in the Settings app.
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60 -1. In the Start Menu (Windows icon on the bottom left corner of screen), select **Settings**
61 -1. Select **Apps**
58 +1. In the Start Menu, select **Settings**
59 +1. Select **System**
62 62  1. Select** Default Apps** in the left sidebar
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64 -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.
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67 -1. Find the program you want to use for defaults in the list and click it.
68 -1. In the main section of the window, you'll have two options:
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70 -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
71 -11. Choose defaults for this program, which opens a list of all the different file types the program is capable of opening. You can then select any or all of the file types you want to use with this program and press Save.
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73 -111. Select OK to finish.
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75 -This is the same menu as in Windows 7, so see step 3 of the Windows 7 section below.
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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101 -In Windows 7, there's one place to change your default program settings.
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104 -1. In the Start Menu, select Default Programs.
105 -1. Select Set your default programs at the top of the page.
106 -1. Find the program you want to use for defaults in the list on the left and click it.
107 -1. In the main section of the window, you'll have two options:
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109 -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
110 -11. Choose defaults for this program, which opens a list of all the different file types the program is capable of opening. You can then select any or all of the file types you want to use with this program and press Save.
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126 126  == {{id name="Changing-the-Default-Program-for-a-file-type"/}}Changing the Default Program for a file type ==
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128 128  In order to change what program a file type opens with:
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131 131  1. **right click on the file** that you would like to open.
132 132  1. Click on **Properties** at the bottom of the menu.
133 133  1. Next "Opens with: ... ", Click on** "Change."**
134 134  1. Click on the program you want to set as default. (For PDFs you will want Adobe Reader)
135 -1. Click **OK**. You should now be able to open that file from the program you set it to.
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139 139  **1-2.**
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143 143  **3.**
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