- #WIN 10 CHANGE DEFAULT PROGRAM FOR FILE TYPE INSTALL#
- #WIN 10 CHANGE DEFAULT PROGRAM FOR FILE TYPE WINDOWS 10#
- #WIN 10 CHANGE DEFAULT PROGRAM FOR FILE TYPE WINDOWS#
#WIN 10 CHANGE DEFAULT PROGRAM FOR FILE TYPE WINDOWS#
Ugh.Use this option to choose which programs you want Windows to use, by default. To defend the machine, the whole process needs to be repeated while logged on as the other userid. One is a restricted user (used 99% of the time for safety), the other is an Administrator. This computer, like all that I configure, has two Windows users. The association of a Default App is user specific.
#WIN 10 CHANGE DEFAULT PROGRAM FOR FILE TYPE WINDOWS 10#
I verified this on another Windows 10 machine, running a different service pack. For whatever reason, there is no "Open with" option when you right click on a For good luck, I changed them to open with Notepad too. While checking, I run across some other file types that looked like they might be WSH related but had no default app (. Can it be sorted by the default app rather than by file type? Of course not. Not sure that this covers all the bases, I then scrolled though the long list of file types to verify that nothing else would be processed by WSH (Microsoft Windows Based Script Host). Then, I renamed the test file and repeated the "Open with" trick for files ending in js, right clicked on the file in Windows Explorer and did "Open with" to force Windows to open the files with Notepad. In the end, I created a test file that ended with. Perhaps this is why the world is not making any new Windows users. jse files.įor Windows users, Microsoft is the enemy. But again, there is no way to make NotepadX the default app for processing. So, I search for NotepadX which it finds. When Windows searches the Microsoft Store, it finds no apps. I get out of Settings and go back into it. I feel like Charlie Brown after Lucy has withdrawn the football. There is no button or option (at least none that i could find) to set NotepadX as the app to process. js files, I tell Windows, again, to look for an app in the Microsoft Store. Back again to Settings, to chose a default app by file type.
#WIN 10 CHANGE DEFAULT PROGRAM FOR FILE TYPE INSTALL#
Moving on, I try to install another Notepad clone, this one called NotepadX.
What the heck is that? It says that my system is only 18362.720. I have no experience with Tile World (Microsoft Store) apps but I try to figure out why the app won't install. But, when I click on the big GET button nothing happens. I find a Notepad clone app that should be harmless. js files, Windows does the search for you.
When you click to search the Microsoft Store for apps to process. Never mind that, by and large, Windows users (aka Microsoft customers) hate Tile World apps. This is part of Microsoft's forced migration to their new Tile World apps. The only alternative to WSH is a Microsoft Store app. But, you can no longer configure Windows 10 to open them with Notepad. js files shows that they still default to be processed by "Microsoft Windows Based Script Host". Yet again, you have to tell Microsoft what you want to do (once is not enough) by clicking on "Chose default apps byĪs show below, I was finally in the right place. This took me to the Default apps section of So, I go to the classic Control Panel, click on Default Programs, then on "Set your default programs". I blogged about this back in October 2016: Tweaking WSH helps defend Windows PCs from malicious email attachments.Īll I wanted to do was change some types of files to open with Notepad rather than be treated as scripts by the Windows Scripting Host engine. There are a handful of file types that Windows will process with WSH and disabling this defends the computer from some attacks. One of the many Defensive Computing tweaks I make to a new PC, is to disable a rarely used OS feature, the Windows Scripting Host (aka WSH), which has been abused by malicious email attachments. Once upon a time, I was setting up a new Windows 10 computer running Service Pack 1903. TLDR: Microsoft makes miserable software.
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