Windows 10: default apps

anyone else getting this popup




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Default Apps

Yes, for the .pages extension i have word as my default program so from your solution how would i continue from there ?

 

Its a change in the way default apps are now handled

Check details here (1st post)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10122 for PCs

 

but how can i get it from stop popping up. 3rd or 4th time now

 

What are you doing when this pops up
From how I understand it, a win32 app is wanting to set itself as a default app, this cannot be done now, so its telling you to go to settings

 

nothing. it happened again and i wasnt using my laptop. just came back and the popup was on my screen

 

Not sure, unfortunately

Hopefully someone with a bit more knowledge on this can answer you, I thought it only appeared when legacy programs tried to change the default

 

what is legacy

 

Its the win32 style programs (desktop programs used in win7, xp etc)

So if for example I installed mediamonkey, and it wanted to make itself the default for my music files, it cant do it anymore, I would need to go to the settings app and manually set it
I think the original programs can be updated to make use of the new way of setting defaults, but until then you need to do it manually

 

I got it when I tried to set Firefox as my default browser; took me awhile to understand what it wanted.

 

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs
select Set Default Programs
look at the Desktop applications
is it the default?
are all the defaults for the application selected?



Since the banner notification doesn't tell you the app - you'll have to cycle though the most obvious. What applications did you install recently - see if those are set as the default (if you want them to be the default application that opens the file types).

The only other thing you can do is go through each application and see what Windows has defined for it.

I don't think it's in Filetype/protocals or set program access (this is fairly small) ... but you never know.

Of course, you could go to Settings>System>Notifications and either turn off notifications or turn off banner notifications (advanced link next to the app slider)

 

A note,
In build 10130, they won't let you set the default program after you install a program. You have to go here system-settings-default apps to set the default apps/programs. It use to pop-up and ask you-Do you want to change the default app/program or keep using the default programs/apps? I preferred that.

 

Yep, they're changing everything. Once you get used to it, though, it's not so bad. *Smile

 

try Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs
Set your default pgms ....
or
Associate a file type or protocol ...

Some of my pgms (Gimp, Textpad) don't show up in the Set your default pgms window.

I find it's a bit easier to use the context menu Open with.... to associate a filetype to those pgms - just make sure you put a check mark in the Always use this application to open files of this type box
(wording might be differnt, but I think you'll figure it out *Wink