Getting started with Windows 10
This help article is based with thanks and acknowledgements on this post:
http://www.howtogeek.com/223144/how-to-set-your-default-apps-in-windows-10/
This help article is based with thanks and acknowledgements on this post:
http://www.howtogeek.com/223144/how-to-set-your-default-apps-in-windows-10/
To run Early Start discs, here’s how to configure Windows 10 so that it opens files and links with the right programs/apps - without compromising any of your other programs.
First, make sure you've downloaded the free Quicktime Player (up-to-date for Windows10) from Apple:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/quicktime
If you have any problems at this stage, please contact Early Start for advice.
First, make sure you've downloaded the free Quicktime Player (up-to-date for Windows10) from Apple:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/quicktime
If you have any problems at this stage, please contact Early Start for advice.
Entering Settings
The next step to getting your default applications configured properly is to enter the Settings app through the Start Menu.
The next step to getting your default applications configured properly is to enter the Settings app through the Start Menu.
In Settings, click on the “System” icon, and scroll down to “Default Apps” in the left-hand side menu
Configure Stock Default Apps
On the splash page of the Default Apps section, you’ll see several different applications which have already been pre-selected to automatically use integrated Windows applications for seven of the main activities you’ll participate in while using the OS. At stock config, any email links clicked on or offline will launch using the default Windows Mail app, web links will open in Microsoft’s new web browser Edge, photos will be routed through the internal Photo Viewer, movies and video files will open in the Video Player app, and Map requests will automatically route to Bing Maps (from within a new tab of Edge).
On the splash page of the Default Apps section, you’ll see several different applications which have already been pre-selected to automatically use integrated Windows applications for seven of the main activities you’ll participate in while using the OS. At stock config, any email links clicked on or offline will launch using the default Windows Mail app, web links will open in Microsoft’s new web browser Edge, photos will be routed through the internal Photo Viewer, movies and video files will open in the Video Player app, and Map requests will automatically route to Bing Maps (from within a new tab of Edge).
To choose which apps launch which types of media or link by the type of file, select the “Choose Default Apps by File Type” option. Here you’ll be greeted by a two-tiered menu, the first containing every file type that Windows 10 is designed to handle, and the second with the list of apps you currently have installed on the machine
To use Early Start materials, you will have to launch .mov files in Quicktime Player, rather than Windows Media Player or the in-house Movies app (which is probably the current setting you start with).
To change this, just scroll down to “.mov” on the left, and once selected, choose the Quicktime application on the right to set it as the default.
And that’s it!
This help article is based with thanks and acknowledgements on this post:
http://www.howtogeek.com/223144/how-to-set-your-default-apps-in-windows-10/
To change this, just scroll down to “.mov” on the left, and once selected, choose the Quicktime application on the right to set it as the default.
And that’s it!
This help article is based with thanks and acknowledgements on this post:
http://www.howtogeek.com/223144/how-to-set-your-default-apps-in-windows-10/