Sometimes, you have to set the default program a few times before Windows gets it right, if at first you don’t succeed and all that. There are more file types than one can shake a stick at, but now you know how to associate them with a program that knows how to make sense of them. These are relatively few though, as every time a proprietary file type comes along, a third party application is configured to allow free access. You may see some file types that don’t have alternatives, this is normal because many program developers also create proprietary file types that can only be opened with that program. ![]() Ftype displays or sets the default program for a particular file type (note the type not file extension). ![]() Then right-click on that file (or Control-click, if you like. If you dont want to use the default application when. First up, to change the default app across all documents of a give file type, simply click on a file of that type, say, a PDF file. This only works with files and not with folders, drives or executables but can be useful if you want to apply a special effect to an image or want to test something in a different program without changing the program you usually use to work with that file. Mac OS X computers use a default application to open every file type based on its file extension.
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