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    Roger Emmens
    last edited by Nov 28, 2021, 10:50 AM

    I’ve just updated to v8.1.9.2 and I find I can no longer set Notepad++ as a default app. I go into Windows settings, Notepad++ is in the apps list, but if I go to default apps, then for ‘Default applications by file type’, for example on .txt, I am only offered options for Notepad, Wordpad, and ‘Look for an app in the Microsoft store’. If I try ‘Set defaults by app’ then Notepad++ is not listed.

    Any suggestions as to what to do?

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      PeterJones @Roger Emmens
      last edited by Nov 28, 2021, 7:17 PM

      @roger-emmens said in Cannot set as default app:

      Any suggestions as to what to do?

      It shows up in my list as available for .txt (where it’s already chosen), but not on all others. Maybe because I had used an Windows Explorer > Right Click > Open With > Browse … or equivalent at one point, and/or because I’ve used the registry to manually associate with Notepad++, maybe then the default-app-by-file-type will show Notepad++ now.

      From what I can gather, with every update Windows is trying to make it harder and more annoying to use anything but “windows apps” from the Microsoft Store, so that (like Apple and Android) they can better track what their users are using, and control the experience. Notepad++ flirted with trying to do an official Microsoft Store release some time back, but the hoops they would have to jump through (and, IIRC, limitations that would have broken the existing plugin system) convinced Don that it wasn’t worth the hassle.

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