Windows 10 keeps changing my default programs

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I've already reported this via feedback hub. It was ignored.

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I had the same problem a while back, I use Sumatra to open pdf. What I did was click on a pdf file in my documents in File Explorer and clicked the drop down arrow in Open from the ribbon and click on Choose another App then select your preferred app and check the always use box then OK. I sense your frustration and I apologise if you have already done this,  you don't say if you have.

Thanks for responding. Yes - I've tried that in the past. As you can see, Microsoft, in one of the recent updates, has removed the "always use this app" box - but, regardless, even when it was still available, it hijacks my setting at least weekly. I rarely get to this point, anyway. When I see those annoying Microsoft Edge icons, I curse up a storm, and then go to control panel and change the default. 

Leaning toward switching to Apple, if they won't take the time to fix the automatic change of default apps to their recommended garbage. 

So - more details on this. Since the latest large Windows 10 update, I noticed exactly when it happens. I receive frequent zip files of mp3 files. Groove Music is my default mp3 player. However, in the zip files, the files have the Windows Media Player icon. Since the latest update, when i extract those files, they convert to Groove Music. I then get notifications that applications have been reset to defaults. And my pdf files are reset to Edge.

I could not find anywhere a place to set defaults within winzip files. So, I switched to WinRAR, and the mp3 files now have Groove Music, and I no longer get a system reset to defaults.....It has been a week - and no resetting of my pdf files has occurred. knock on wood......