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exe selected, right-click (Default) and click Modify…

Right-click Regedit.exe in the returned list and click Run as administrator.

Click the Startbutton and type regedit in the Search box.

In the left column, select (highlight) a listed program that you want to change it’s default file associations for. Click on the Set your default programs link. Open the Control Panel (All Items view) and click on the Default Programs icon. How do I change the default program for EXE files?

Click the file type or protocol that you want the program to act as the default for.

Click Associate a file type or protocol with a program.

Open Default Programs by clicking the Start button, and then clicking Default Programs.

#Set default program to open txt windows 7#

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Please can anyone offer some suggestions and assistance with this, I like the app and I want to work with it but I feel like I've already wasted so much of my time on something that should be very simple. The problem is not just limited to me not being able to set the program as my default launcher, I am literally unable to open existing files with it! The strange thing is that I can open the files if I open them from within the program through: Files -> Open in the toolbar but obviously that's a workaround, not a solution.

#Set default program to open txt zip#

I did download the application again here from GitHub hoping that would be a slightly different version that would allow me to use it properly however I couldn't find an executable file within this zip folder, and therefore resorted back to the windows store version. To add to this and just to be sure, I also went to the parent folder I had now placed the files in and changed all the ownership and permissions to my own in a hope that this would make the sufficient difference that was needed, however, unfortunately, it still didn't work. I then resort to just copying the entire selection of folders (4 folders within the windows apps folder in my program files) into my google drive folder, but again when I select the file, it doesn't want to play ball and I get the same error message.

No luck I get the same error message as before. To try to get around this I created a shortcut to the program, put this in a separate folder (also in my google drive), and then selected this as the program to open the files with. To be clear the file I am trying to access is just an ordinary text file in my google drive folder and it opens up fine in the normal Notepad program. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. Next up once I actually got to the file and selected it, I get this error message: This is where the first problem came up, I was told I couldn't access the files within this folder because I didn't have the correct permissions to do so, annoying and seemingly unnecessary, but a quick change to the ownership of the folder resolved this one. I tried to set this app as the default by going through the standard 'open with' steps, then navigating to the folder where it is located. I downloaded the app from the windows store and after a fair bit of searching, I found that it had saved itself into the 'Windows Apps' folder within my program files. After several unsuccessful attempts at setting this app as my default text editor instead of the normal notepad program, I am losing hope.