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Choose WordPad as the default program to open downloaded documents with
When you download a specific file type usually Windows 10, 8.1, as well as other versions of Windows operating systems, will open them with the default application you have set in the system but you can find out how to change the downloaded document format from a default state to any application you want including WordPad just in a few minutes by following the lines below.
You will learn in this article not only how to change a default app in Windows to open a document in WordPad but for other types of files as well like: songs, movies or photos. As a heads up on this tutorial is the fact that the changes you make to your default documents opening after you download them will only remain in the account of Windows 8.1 you are using. So if you log in with another user account these settings will not apply to it.
How to choose WordPad to open your downloaded documents in Windows 10?
1. From PC settings
Note: If you do not have an application by default you have to left-click or tap on the “Choose a default” feature.
Note: You need to have the apps installed on your Windows 8.1 computer in order to set them as defaults.
2. From the file’s right-click menu
This is anothner great old solution that you can try. It does not work for sophisticated file types, but for the most usual (audio, video, text, etc..) – works fine for me since I started using Windows. Here’s how you do:
This is all you have to do in order to set your WordPad application as default in your Windows 8.1 operating system. If you have any issues along the way in this article you can write us a couple of rows below in the comments section of the page and we will help you further with this subject.
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