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Windows Vista and default applications

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Thursday April 9, 2009

By default Windows Vista uses certain programs to work with certain data. It uses Windows Mail for email, for example, and Windows Calendar for calendar items. If you prefer to use other programs you can go in and change the default programs. Here's how.

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- Click on Start and then on Default Programs.

- Click on Set your default programs.

- Move down the list and set the programs you want to use as defaults.

- Keep in mind that items can only have one default program. You can't, for example, have two default Web browsers.

- If you set Firefox as the default you can still open Web pages with Internet Explorer, but it won't be the default program for Web pages.

- If you want Quicktime or some other media program to play media you need to set it as the default for each file type.

- For each program you can click on Set defaults for this program and go in and make changes.

- You can check or uncheck file types that you want a program to handle.

- When you've set your defaults just click OK and you're done.

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