Every file on your hard drive (.jpeg, .html, and the like) can be associated with a compatible program, which will open that file format by default. Some applications will change a format’s default ...

One of the more frustrating things I experience in daily usage of my Mac is opening a file that launches an unexpected application, which can sometimes result in a failure to open the file. Joe is a ...

Windows associates data files with applications so that the appropriate program launches automatically when the icon or name of the data file is clicked. For example, if a GIF image is associated with ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: With zero changes to my laptop, out of the blue of late, after opening several image files, all of which have ...

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Windows: It's not super hard to instruct Windows to use a certain app to open a type of file, but there's not really a place to manage all those associations at once. Unless you have Types. This app ...

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 you ...

Many programs offer internal tools for configuring file associations, but the Control Panel configures all file associations through a single Windows feature. The Control Panel can command programs ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default program ...

New version of iView Media Pro loses file associations, workaround Mark Byard reports that the new version of iView Media Pro has issues with losing file association -- a problem that is resolved by ...

Title pretty much says it all. I have a Terminal Server on which I need to change some file associations, but when I go to Tools --> Folder Options from an Explorer window the options to Change a file ...

(1) The relationship of one file to another based on the data it contains. (2) An established relationship between a file and the application used to open it. There are default file associations ...