Many programs offer internal tools for configuring file associations, but the Control Panel configures all file associations through a single Windows feature. The Control Panel can command programs ...

Nearly every computer these days comes with a PDF viewer, a program that allows you to read, print, and sometimes edit a PDF file. In the newest versions of Windows 10, the default PDF viewer is ...

Do you have some programs installed on your computer that you don’t want anyone to know about? If that is the case, then you can hide programs from showing in the Control Panel and Settings so that ...

Try executing the following from a Start/Run dialog: regsvr32 appwiz.cpl You should get a dialog saying 'DllRegisterServer in appwiz.cpl succeeded.' almost immediately. Appwiz.cpl is the Add/Remove ...

When you first install Microsoft Office 2007, its programs become the default programs for opening Office files. You can later set other applications as the default programs. OpenOffice is an ...

In Windows 11/10, it is possible to open different Settings panel pages using various commands. If you receive a program association error when opening a Settings ...