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Change Defaults on Your Laptop

Written by Nick Williams

Updated at July 19th, 2023

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Default Apps

To set default applications for different file types, you can find the menu two different ways.

  1.  Search for “default apps” in the search bar

OR

  1. Click on the Windows icon on the bottom left, click on settings, and search for “default apps”

From the top menu you can select default applications for music, photos, video and web browser (Chrome recommended).

You can also click on “Choose default apps by file type” to assign apps to different files.  

There are hundreds, but we suggest you change .pdf to Adobe

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