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
    2018-03-27T18:02:13+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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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-27T06:22:53+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-27T00:24:51+00:00

    If you honestly do then why is there no choice in default apps other MS choices?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-26T19:16:44+00:00

    None of the updates have anything to do with your personal files. As you would know if you bothered to study what the updates actually were.

    Which you could simply by clicking on any one of them and seeing what they included:

    RE-EDITED FOR CLARITY

    But: This page will give you the contents of the most recent cumulative update:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4089848/windows-10-update-kb4089848

    AND this page will give you the contents of the one before that:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4088776/windows-10-update-kb4088776

    And here's one from last month: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074592/windows-10-update-kb4074592

    You get the idea, I'm sure. Nothing here is messing with your apps. You are free to spend the rest of the week reading up on all the updates, if you like. Just keep clicking the entries on the left side of the page.

    There is, in these latter years of the second decade of the 21st Century , a belief (fostered by a certain President of the United States) that if you keep repeating inane and demonstrably false statements long enough they eventually become true.

    This belief is ill-founded.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-26T18:41:37+00:00

    It would be happening on everybody's computers if that were true.

    As I have already explained...and demonstrated...it is not.

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