Windows 10 keeps changing my default programs

Anonymous
2017-07-17T19:36:54+00:00

Windows 10 keeps changing my default pdf program from Adobe Acrobat to Microsoft Edge. 

Please don't tell me to set my default program in control panel - I do that weekly.

Please don't tell me to do the "OpenWith" registry hack - I've done that, and it did work, until the next major Windows 10 update. Obviously, someone at Microsoft found out about that one.

I have also tried running another hack, that works for a while, but after a few days, I see that ANNOYING edge icon on my pdf files, and have to go back into control panel and change everything back.

It's really annoying, because, it's MY computer. I paid for it, and it included my O/S license - it is MY decision to use Adobe Acrobat for pdf files, not Microsoft's.

Please note that we also have a laptop where this issue NEVER occurs.

I know i'm not the only one out there where this still occurs even after setting the default and running the registry hack.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-02T16:12:56+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-27T18:02:13+00:00

    MS has every right. The Operating System is sold "as is" and you signed a contract acknowledging that. This includes the Windows as a Service Updates. 

    If you don't like that you shouldn't have installed it.

    You should have gone with another O/S

    TAILS, for example. Which features the TOR browser (they were, in fact, designed with each other in mind).

    And there are others. They are Open Source (i. e. usually free).

    Knock yourself out.

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