Windows 10: update what app to use via filetype

Discus and support update what app to use via filetype in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; Hello --- I am trying update the app used to open/edit a .json file --- when I open "default apps by type", I have 2 options --- an editor that I don't... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by fpefpe, Dec 26, 2021.

  1. FPEFPE
    fpefpe Win User

    update what app to use via filetype


    Hello --- I am trying update the app used to open/edit a .json file --- when I open "default apps by type", I have 2 options --- an editor that I don't use, and the MS store --- why can't I pick an edit that I have already installed on my computer

    :)
     
    fpefpe, Dec 26, 2021
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  2. DALCHINA
    dalchina Win User

    Find Folders Without Filetype - Need App Suggestion

    windows 7 - Find folders NOT containing a particular filemask - Software Recommendations Stack Exchange
    You can use the shareware XYplorer, which has a 30-day trial period. In version 14.80, it introduced the feature that you want: Find Containing Folders. Now you can list all folders containing a certain file or file type, files of a certain size or age, or with certain other properties. You can as well list all folders NOT containing such files.

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    Quicksearch - example with switch.


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    (You can just see the switch on the bottom - sorry, clipped the text)
     
    dalchina, Dec 26, 2021
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  3. DALCHINA
    dalchina Win User
    Unable to change default app by protocol or filetype.

    Hi, I don't have Acrobat installed. With Sumatra as my default pdf reader, that hyperlink to a pdf docoument opens in.. yes.. Sumatra. Changing to Edge:

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    the hyperlink opens in... yes.. Edge.

    If, as seems the case, Bluebeam is correctly associated with pdf files, I can't say why the hyperlink fails. Your guess about the protocol may be right- I don't know. If you could make any change to that to test that theory, as you suggest, that would help.

    If you wish to view the relevant registry key, a convenient way to get there is via free Filetypesman - a rt click option.

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    dalchina, Dec 26, 2021
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  4. DALCHINA
    dalchina Win User

    update what app to use via filetype

    Unable to change default app by protocol or filetype.

    Hi, just considering what is shown in the Open With options, for example:

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    Here you can see Sumatra is my default reader.


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    Here you can see Sumatra and Chrome are added to the Open With list, + Edge, a system default.

    The choice presented to you for .fdf, .pdfxml, .pdx for example, should depend on whether Bluebeam has correctly registered itself in the appropriate place as capable of handling those extensions.

    So, for example, is Bluebeam shown in the Open With list for those extensions?

    It is not enough that a program is installed that is potentially capable of handling a file type (e.g. via an Open dialogue) but that it be so registered. That is up to the author to specify.

    Application Registration - Windows applications | Microsoft Docs


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    This opens in Sumatra, my default.

    Unfortunately this option in the Control Panel now opens in Settings:

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    and does not allow you to do what it claims.
     
    dalchina, Dec 26, 2021
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