Windows 10: Can't change default app to Excel from Notepad in Windows 10

Can't change default app to Excel from Notepad in Windows 10. It wants me to go to the MS Store.

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Excel not visible on list of applications that can be assigned as default app for csv files

Hi

I'm using win 10 and office 2016.

By accident I assigned mytorrent as default file type to csv. When I want to change it back to Excel (xlsx), Excel is not on the liste I see in the different ways I've tried. I suppose Excel is the most obvious choice for csv.

I have tried right clicking the file and selecting open with. Excel not an option.

Then I have tried to change the program attachments (translated from danish). I'll check that csv should be opened by excel, but that only changes the default app from mytorrent to Notepad!

How do I get excel to be the default app for csv?

Peter

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How to change default app for file type

'Open With > Choose another app' has three step, in the first it only offers apps registered for that file type. If you click 'More apps' it lists all registered apps regardless of suitability. Both these steps have the tick-box for 'Always use...' in my 18363.752. The third step, if needed, is 'Look for another app on this PC'. The 'Always use...' must be ticked before taking this step if you want the change to stick. However, WMP appears at the second step.

For a quick look at a JPG almost anything (including WMP) is more practical than Photos which on my system takes more than ten seconds just to open a photo. The OP is probably not aware that the Windows Photo Viewer is still available in W10, but hidden away. That's my default viewer for JPG.


Restore Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10

And, once enabled, is available in Settings > Apps > Default apps.

 

Change file extension for Notepad ++

Why not simply find a different program that does register itself as a potential default correctly?

As I said before, the only option you have realistically if you wish to associate it is to use Open With, Browse to the program's exe and remember to click the check box to always use that program at the bottom.
(Tutorial available if you need it).

Otherwise, I suggest you use a different program that is written so as to register itself to be capable of handling the extensions it can process.

Understand that programs which are not so written will not be listed by Windows as a potential default, as I have already said.

Examples:
https://www.slant.co/options/44/alte...d-alternatives
https://www.guru99.com/notepad-plus-...ternative.html
- checking they can be associated as defaults

For example, looking for a replacement for Notepad, I found EditPadLite, a tabbed editor. It is easy to associate this.

If you search this forum, Notepad++ had been discussed before.
File extension not in file association list
(Post #7)

There are many discussions on the internet, but older references to the Control Panel are now obsolete, alas.
How to Make Notepad++ As Default Text Editor on Windows 10
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Update -
- this section may be of interest, but with due caution

Set Notepad++ as default app in Windows 10 | Notepad++ Community