OS X allows you to assign an application to a document type or change this application, but does not allow you to clear this association. Here is one method for doing this. Topher, an avid Mac user ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Group Policy enables businesses to control and configure computer and user settings in an Active Directory environment. Administrators can use Group Policy Management Console to make changes to ...

When you double-click a file on your computer, Windows may launch an application to run or display the file. Windows knows how to do this because it maintains a list of known file types and the names ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I’m getting the dreaded “Explorer.EXE, This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this ...

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 ...

Windows offers a wide range of applications. Almost every kind of software is available for Windows 11/10. Even if you want to make a shortcut to copy and paste, you have a freeware to do it ...

In Windows 11 or Windows 10, you can Configure, Export, Import File Associations and even set or change file associations and extensions using GUI, but there is no option provided to delete an ...

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 ...

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 ...