Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

You can open File Explorer in more than one way, and in this guide, we'll show you nine (plus) methods to complete this task on Windows 10.

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

The Windows operating system uses the file extension to understand how to open a file. For example, when you double-click to open a TXT file, Notepad probably opens it.

The default setting for Windows is to not display a file's extension. Therefore, when viewing files in Windows you would only see the portion of the filename that precedes the last period in ...