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I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone having this problem aside from that large server update a year or two ago and their "desktop experience". Can anyone tell

I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone having this problem aside from that large server update a year or two ago and their "desktop experience". Can anyone tell me more?

java-man 7y ago
Literally today it opened a PDF file with Edge for me. And, of course, file association page does not have a searh box to help find .txt among hundreds of useless and unassigned extensions.
- jodrellblank 7y ago
  See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96175 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96... for an explanation. "A customer reported that each time they restart their Windows 10 PC, the file association for PDF documents keeps getting reset to the default, which is Microsoft Edge. [..]"
  - java-man 7y ago
    This is not a case of Program X messing with registry. This is the user explicitly setting Program X to be the default application. I guess there is no way (given the current registry design) to differentiate between the user modifying the registry and a program modifying the registry. Again, coming back to the original message - the case scenario is not that some program is changing the preferences. It the user changing the setting, and Win10 silently discarding the user input (after a reboot or some automated update).
GrayShade 7y ago
I see it on every large update (like 1909) or so.
cma 7y ago
Somehow it seems to do some braindead syncing when you set up a new device. When setting up a new laptop suddenly my desktop task bar switched sides to match the change on the laptop, and files stopped showing extensions (even though that wasn't touched yet on the laptop, the default is not to show them and that somehow seemed to carry over to my desktop).
shakna 7y ago
Well, last year [0][1] consumers weren't able to have changes to the defaults. Well, some apps would change, but others wouldn't. However, you can get the impression it happens more regularly because when individual default apps, like Photos, get updated (or if there is a problem in the registry) they may reset the association for the files they expect to handle. [0] https://wccftech.com/windows-10-bug-unable-apps-defaults/ https://wccftech.com/windows-10-bug-unable-apps-defaults/ [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467682/windows-10-update-kb4467682 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467682/windows-10-...

I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone having this problem aside from that large server update a year or two ago and their "desktop experience". Can anyone tell me more?

java-man 7y ago

Literally today it opened a PDF file with Edge for me. And, of course, file association page does not have a searh box to help find .txt among hundreds of useless and unassigned extensions.

jodrellblank 7y ago
See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96175 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96... for an explanation. "A customer reported that each time they restart their Windows 10 PC, the file association for PDF documents keeps getting reset to the default, which is Microsoft Edge. [..]"
- java-man 7y ago
  This is not a case of Program X messing with registry. This is the user explicitly setting Program X to be the default application. I guess there is no way (given the current registry design) to differentiate between the user modifying the registry and a program modifying the registry. Again, coming back to the original message - the case scenario is not that some program is changing the preferences. It the user changing the setting, and Win10 silently discarding the user input (after a reboot or some automated update).

GrayShade 7y ago

I see it on every large update (like 1909) or so.

cma 7y ago

Somehow it seems to do some braindead syncing when you set up a new device. When setting up a new laptop suddenly my desktop task bar switched sides to match the change on the laptop, and files stopped showing extensions (even though that wasn't touched yet on the laptop, the default is not to show them and that somehow seemed to carry over to my desktop).

shakna 7y ago

Well, last year [0][1] consumers weren't able to have changes to the defaults. Well, some apps would change, but others wouldn't. However, you can get the impression it happens more regularly because when individual default apps, like Photos, get updated (or if there is a problem in the registry) they may reset the association for the files they expect to handle. [0] https://wccftech.com/windows-10-bug-unable-apps-defaults/ https://wccftech.com/windows-10-bug-unable-apps-defaults/ [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467682/windows-10-update-kb4467682 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467682/windows-10-...