One of the enduring legacies of the '90s browser wars has been an outsize attention to how Microsoft handles default app settings in Windows, especially browser settings. The company plans to make it ...

PCWorld explains how to replace Microsoft Edge with Chrome or Firefox as your default browser on Windows 10 and 11. This matters because many users prefer alternatives to Edge for better privacy, ...

Sindre Sorhus has released more apps than most indie developers I’ve covered, and many are among my favorite utilities. I suspect that a big part of Sorhus’ success is the tight focus of most of those ...

You don't have to set a default browser for ten file and link types anymore on Windows 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This is for a PORTABLE application that W10 won't see anywhere. So most of those so-called 'simple' procedures probably won't work or are just to complex using the Registry since it usually requires ...

Windows is generally flexible about tweaks to its system—and advanced users have long taken advantage of registry tweaks to make the OS behave. But recently, Microsoft has quietly barred access to one ...

When browsing the web with Google Chrome, Google marks one account as your default in your web browser. This works similarly to when you've logged into Google services and have one set as the default ...

This article has been updated with comment from Microsoft. Microsoft has been accused of deliberately making it harder to switch the default browser away from Edge in Windows 11. In Windows 10, users ...