If you chose a different folder than Pictures, then change whatever the name of that shortcut is to File Explorer. Go ahead and delete the File Explorer shortcut and rename the Pictures Shortcut to File Explorer. Now go ahead and drag the shortcut that we just created from your desktop into the special folder you have open in Explorer. Depending on what else is pinned to your taskbar, you might see shortcuts to several programs here, but you should always see a File Explorer shortcut. Make sure to press Enter after you paste the path into Explorer. Just copy and paste the following path into the address bar in another Explorer window: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
First, let’s open Explorer and go to that special location. Next, we need to copy that shortcut into a special location in Windows. To get started, find your folder and create a shortcut to the folder on your desktop.įor example, if I wanted to use the Pictures folder as my default folder, I would right-click on it, choose Send to and then click on Desktop (create shortcut). I’ve tested it out and the process seems to work just fine. Since there really isn’t any official way to do this, we have to kind of hack Windows to get it to do what we want.
#Set defaults windows 10 Pc#
1 means This PC and 2 means Quick Access.įinally, let’s talk about how we can configure Explorer to open up to any folder as the default folder. On the right hand side, look for a DWORD key named Launch To. Just navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
If you need to do this on many machines in a corporate environment, you’ll be happy to know that there is a registry entry that controls this setting also. Just pick whichever folder you prefer and you’re good to go! Now when you open Explorer, you should see it open to This PC selected instead of Quick Access. At the very top, you’ll see Open File Explorer to where you can select from This PC and Quick Access. In the dialog that pops up, you should already be on the General tab. Then copy it to a file share that can be accessed by all target PCs.To change the setting, open Explorer, click on File and then click on Change folder and search options. The output file contains an empty line before the XML declaration, which you should remove in an editor. Select-String -Pattern "Chrome|.xml|DefaultAssociations"| For example, if you have defined Chrome as the default on the reference computer, then extract the settings responsible for the browser with this command: Get-Content. This task can be done relatively easily with PowerShell. Other standard apps are not changed or deleted by importing the reduced list on the target computers. However, you can just keep the entries you actually need and import only the sections that affect the browser. This file contains the settings for both the web browser and all other types of applications. This will write the list of default apps and their associated file types or protocols to the assoc.xml file. Once you have specified all the default apps you want, switch to a command prompt or PowerShell session, and run the following command: dism /online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:assoc.xml
#Set defaults windows 10 windows 10#
The good news is that you can also use a PC with Windows 10 for this because the format of the exported settings remains the same.
The standard browser is set using the Windows 11 GUI, as described above. On the other hand, if you configure the file type associations as a normal user, then these changes will be neglected because DISM will export not these but the settings of the privileged user. To create a sample configuration for default apps, you need to log on to the machine with an admin account because the DISM utility requires elevated privileges. To set a default program via GPO, configure the default apps on the admin machine, export them to an XML file, and specify it as a configuration file in the appropriate group policy. All file types and protocols must be assigned manually to the future standard browser Set up a reference system for GPO
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