To force Windows 11/10 into changing the behavior to either copy or move, regardless of whether you’re dragging items onto the same or different drives, you will need to edit two registry entries.

Microsoft has made it harder to choose which apps handle standard file types. Follow these steps to set default apps for all your documents, images, music files, and more. I've been testing PC and ...

Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

Nearly every computer these days comes with a PDF viewer, a program that allows you to read, print, and sometimes edit a PDF file. In the newest versions of Windows 10, the default PDF viewer is ...

Developed 30 years ago by Adobe, the Portable Document Format, or PDF, is widely used around the globe for viewing and signing documents – everything from corporate annual reports and scientific ...

I had to help a friend with his computer over the weekend. It seems his PC forgot he had Adobe Acrobat installed and instead it was opening PDF files in Google Chrome. I wasn’t quite sure how his ...

First, open Windows Settings by pressing Windows+1 on the keyboard. You can also rick-click the Start button and choose Settings from the menu. In Settings, select "Apps" in the sidebar and choose ...

Microsoft is making it easier to change your default file associations by adding a new search feature that lets you quickly find the extension you wish to modify. When a program is installed in ...

Here’s how you can change the default folder that Microsoft Word uses to save your documents. 1. Open the Microsoft Word preferences menu. 2. Go to Personal Settings. 3. Go to File Locations. 4. Click ...

From our years-long experience of using Microsoft Office, we can say for certain that it does not take a lot of effort to save a document to your hard drive. In fact, Microsoft has made this much ...

Microsoft Office 365 has used the Calibri font as the default since 2007, when it replaced Times New Roman. In 2023, Microsoft decided to move to newer beginnings, changing its default font to Aptos, ...

If you're not happy with the default Windows file manager, you're in luck because there are plenty of options that improve on the original.