Hello and welcome to computer Lab vids YouTube channel and in this video. I'm going to show you how to set your
default programs by file extensions and by file types and programs
ok so the first thing we need to do and is go down to the settings menu so you can access the setting menu and
Multiple different ways but down into the bottom Left-hand corner
You'll see the windows logo click on the windows logo up towards the cog and just the second one up there
And that will open the settings menu and you can't see the settings menu because you're using an earlier
Version of windows 10 you can just type setting in the search Box click on the top
Item and it will bring up the settings menu so just go back down again
To the windows key click on the cog brings up the settings menu
ok so again you can do search, but basically and this is a bit of a
Nicer way of looking at a control panel control panel is still accessible
But to get to the item that we want we are looking for the defaults which is in this apps
section here you can click on the apps icon which I will do in a second and
Just click on it there
But you can also go back to the home screen and just show you here that you can actually type in defaults
And you start type your people the default app settings
You can click on that and that will bring up this box here, so again
I'm set back home into the apps, and that's a quick and easy way to get to if your windows is updated
So ok so you are now looking at the app and features where we don't want this on the left-hand side here
You can see the different options
We have and the blue one on the top left hand side is the one that we're currently on we want default apps
So click on the default apps and in here now you can see that these are the default apps that windows Microsoft
Deems that are the most important ones are open multiple
different file extensions within
Your windows 10 environment, so obviously now we have the web browser there. Which is currently set to Microsoft Edge because that's a
Microsoft Product and
The email is currently set to the new mail
Appstore program that is installed on
Windows 10 within Windows 10
so you can see here the
the mail icon yours might look slightly different if something is already over ridden the defaults on your computer and
Currently it sets to by default it will set to the mail icon at the mail program and sure that mail icon
Likewise, you can see their photos and if I click on the photos it will give me options to change to a different program
These are just programs that are installed on this computer your list might look slightly different
The one that's built into windows 10 is the photos app
but if you want to view your photos in a different program as default
These are the JPEG files and stuff like that now you can just click what you want there
Likewise, you can see that a Microsoft web browser is currently set to EDGE
These are not the particular ones that I want to show you in detail, but i will just touch on here
so if I want them any emails to open within outlook
2016 I could just set the icon that I'd like to save it from there
just click on the icon that's what I want allow it if you using gmail, so you can use any
emails you can pick
Opening chrome so I saw a little things if you're on a website
And it's an email to customer service something it will send it to
It will email it out through your default program which you set in these particular list in the default apps
ok so getting down to the
default and
Application bar file tab which you can see just underneath the reset button there. This is the
the particular file extension that you want a program to open by, so
the usual this might just take a bit to populate depending how many
programs and file types on your computer just be patient let it populate and it will fill up and
You'll notice on the left hand side and these are the actual file extension types. You might recognize on these don't worry about it
they might not for a program to open a move because system files and
But as you can see here the for example is dot 3Ds file it will open in Adobe Photoshop
And all these on the left are all in alphabetical order
So we're looking for a particular file. You have to scroll down and try and find that that file type and
Quite easy to find once you get there obviously and you can see as I am scrolling through
I'm just looking for one that we can just go play around with just to show you how it works
You see there the .contact file that any contact
we'll go straight into your contacts folder and but I think we'll go down and
look for a
Pdf file. So I will just scroll down, these are alphabetical
so scroll through
But if I just show you this one here .docs
That's when they recognize you got the emails and that will open any dot Docx will open in a word
In Word, so anything you get through email with a .docs file you click on that link it will open in and a word
So now getting back to this the dot Pdf you can see they open in
Microsoft currently set to Microsoft Edge so anything on the left is going to open it with with on the right
So just open the documents folder here you can see now. Let's just make a bit bigger. So you can see it
they're all going to open you can see the E icon which is the
indicating that's going to open in EDGE , so if I double click on it, it will open in Microsoft EDGE as you can see here and
So I'm not keen on all my PDFs opening with a web browser
So I like mine to open in Adobe reader now
You do need the programs installed in machine, so you can set them
But if I had to click on the edge icon and tell it to say any PDF's I want to open in Adobe
Acrobat reader, and you can see soon as I do that the icon changes. So it will do a quick scan of your computer
and change all the pdf so I double click on it there you can see straight away
It's opening within Adobe acrobat reader, and they'll change all the PDFs within on your computer to open
With whatever program you set it to within this default action type
So we'll go down again to a file type that you might recognize
obviously to some of the obvious ones that people use all the time PDF's so using one of them
.Docs like I showed you at the beginning. is another file type that people use a lot
But if i look for MP3 there we go, so they're open within
Groove music at the Moment you might have itunes
Installed that you will be able to pick that off the list here
and just tell it that any MP3 I want it to open within itunes and
It's not currently showing itunes and itunes on this list because I don't have itunes installed
but it is showing me quicktime player and
some little bits and pieces that
you can set so anytime you put an MP3 file or
Rip a Cd to your computer it will and you try and play it back and open MP3 it will open it
Whatever you pick from that list, you don't have to save them just go back all using the back arrow there
And that's it straight away. Go straight into the settings
There's no like okay, and apply like it used to be in Windows 10
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