Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

When you double-click on a file in Windows 8, Windows will automatically open that file using a program that has been associated with that file's extension. There may come a time, though, that ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

A reader would like to know how to change the default program his computer uses to open .jpg files when he double-clicks on a photo file. Most computers will use their operating system’s default ...

Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs for each file type -- images files, for example, will open by default in the Windows 10 Photos app.

For example, if you were to open an RTF file and choose Word from the list of programs, Windows would always use Word to open RTF files instead of WordPad.