{"id":11314,"date":"2018-04-18T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:23:40","slug":"restore-all-file-associations-to-default-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/restore-all-file-associations-to-default-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Restore All File Associations to Default in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 file extensions are messed up? Is there a simple way to reset all file associations to default? When double-clicking a text file, Windows will open it with Notepad because the file extension .txt is associated with Notepad by default. Installing a new text editor software can result in changes to the default file association. Since Windows 10 there is an easy way to restore all file associations to default.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Restore All File Associations to Default in Windows 10?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press the Windows key + I shortcut to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-pc-settings-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open the Settings app<\/a>, and then click <strong>Apps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/apps-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the <strong>Default apps<\/strong> on the left, you&#8217;ll see all the default programs for opening your pictures, videos, webpage or checking out email message, etc. Scroll down a bit till you see the setting &#8211; <strong>Reset to Microsoft recommended defaults<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/reset-file-extensions-to-default.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click the <strong>Reset<\/strong> button and all your file associations will be restore to their original defaults immediately.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 file extensions are messed up? Is there a simple way to reset all file associations to default? When double-clicking a text file, Windows will open it with Notepad because the file extension .txt is associated with Notepad by default. Installing a new text editor software can result in changes to the default file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3743,3742],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-reset-file-associations-windows-10","tag-restore-default-file-associations-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11320,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions\/11320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}