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Click the Start button, then click on the Control Panel icon to open the Windows Control Panel.

Use the following steps to change the default mail program in XP: Underneath Choose a default e-mail program, click the radio button next to the program you want to use (e.g. In the Access and Defaults window, click on the Custom radio button to expand the Custom category.

Windows 8 users type Default Programs into the Start screen and hit Enter.Ĭlick on the Set Program Access and Computer Defaults item.

Use the following steps to change the default mail program in Windows 8, 7 or Vista:Ĭlick the Start button, then click the Default Programs item. Once You see the Default App Settings option, click it.Ĭlick the Mail option, then select the program you wish to make default. In the search bar or search icon on the bottom left of the desktop, begin typing Default App Settings.

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Use the following steps to change the default mail program in Windows 10 When another application wants to send an email, it looks up the default and passes the email to the default mail program.

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And if you ever want to change it again, just go through the same steps from the Get Info window.The default mail program is the software that is registered with your operating system as the software that is to handle mailto URL's. If you’re sure, then a click on “Continue” and you’re done.

Want to change each and every JPEG file on your computer to open with GraphicConverter 9, not just this one?

Now choose the program you’d prefer from the pop-up menu, and it’ll look like this: If you don’t see quite the same view, just click on some of the triangles on the left side of each of the seven sections to reveal the “Open with” section. You can see that I’ve clicked a few of the tiny grey triangles to close up all the sections other than “Open with”. To do that click on the file icon to choose it, then press Cmd-I or choose “Get Info” from the “File” menu in the Finder. The wrinkle? It doesn’t change what program owns or will be utilized for all other JPEG or JPG files. Again, choose your favorite app and this particular file will now always open in that program. To change which program owns this particular file, pressing Control-Click THEN, while still holding down the Control key, pressing the Option key produces a slightly different menu: Problem with this solution is that it doesn’t change anything for the next time I touch the file: it’ll still open in Preview on double-click. In this case, I’d like to open the image with GraphicConverter 9, so I could do that by simply choosing it from the list. Try a different file, like a DOCX or a WMA file, and you’ll see a very different list of available apps. By choosing “Open With” I get a secondary menu that shows the default app for this file type (Preview) along with a list of different programs that have indicated to the OS that they can handle a JPG file.

Here I’m trying to open up the file “american-hustle-poster.jpg”, a JPEG format image. To open a file with a specific program or application, right click (oops, sorry, “control-click”) on the icon:

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You can get into a bit of trouble if you assign a filetype to a program that can’t handle it, like an audio file to be always opened in Adobe Photoshop, but you’ll see, Mac OS X warns you about that by tapping into a list of known file types for each program you have on your system.

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On a PC I’d say you need to deal with the file registry or some complex setting, but on the Mac it’s surprisingly easy to get this correct, though it turns out that there are three possible solutions: you can open up a file with a specific program once, you can specify that particular file should always open up with a specific program or app, or you can tell Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (or whatever version of Mac OS you’re running) that forevermore all files of the specified type should be assigned to the program you prefer.