Change Defaults on Your Laptop
Discover how to personalize your laptop settings by changing default applications for a more tailored computing experience.
Written by Nick Williams
Updated at October 20th, 2026
You Can Navigate to set Default applications for different file types using the following 2 options.
- Search for “default apps” in the search bar
OR
- Click on the Windows icon on the bottom center, click on settings, and search for “default apps”
Once the Default Apps window opens you can select default applications for music, photos, video and web browser (Chrome recommended as shown below).
You can also click on “Choose default apps by file type” to assign apps to different files.
There are Numerous File types, but we suggest you change .pdf to Adobe
