When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

Have you ever noticed how your computer knows which program to open when you double click on a file? It doesn’t always know but most of the time it does. When it doesn’t know, your computer will ask ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default program ...

In most cases, the majority of the file extensions you encounter on your computer are already associated with a program or protocol. When a file extension is not associated with a program, however, ...

Kavindu installed KMPlayer, then discovered that more file types opened in KMPlayer than he wanted. When you open a data file, Windows uses the file’s extension (such as .docx, .mp3, .jpg) to see in ...

A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...

In Windows 11/10, it is possible to open different Settings panel pages using various commands. If you receive a program association error when opening a Settings ...

BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this. Windows uses a file’s extension–the part of the ...