Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

How to Open DLL Files & Programs in Microsoft. The acronym "DLL" stands for dynamic link library. DLLs contain code and instructions for one or more applications.

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 ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows 8, Windows will automatically open that file using a program that has been associated with that file's extension. There may come a time, though, that you ...

When you right-click a file, you see the Open With command. Whenever you use any program to open such a file, it gets added to this list, as Windows remembers that you had used it once.If you were ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are ...

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to force Windows to open specified software and files every time you turn on the computer. SEE: Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: A side-by-side analysis w ...

Once you've found a file manager you like, you can edit the sprawling Windows registry settings file to set it as the default—though in some parts of Windows, like saving files in programs ...