{"id":2986,"date":"2014-12-11T03:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T09:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2014-12-11T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T09:16:31","slug":"how-to-set-the-default-browser-and-other-programs-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-set-the-default-browser-and-other-programs-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set the default browser and other programs in Windows 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let<span lang=\"en-US\">&#8216;s say that you made a mistake and you set Internet Explorer as the default browser, or you just installed Opera browser just to see how it works and you accidentally clicked YES on the dialogue box that asked you if you want to set is as the default browser. You can live through this but every time you will hit an external link in a document or e-mail, it will be opened with this default nightmare. Setting things right is easy as 1 2 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rWTye206548960bb98f49127050390.png\" alt=\"Default browser 1\" width=\"1440\" height=\"860\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Open Control Panel (click on the Start button and select Control Panel from the menu on the right) and click on Programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KxZpT794548960b4d95d0364325785.png\" alt=\"Default browser 2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"860\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Click on \u201cSet your default programs\u201d option from the Default Programs category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fdDqP714548960b839d3f394546636.png\" alt=\"Default browser 3\" width=\"1440\" height=\"860\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> You will now get to a new window. It will open a bit slowly (it takes a few seconds) because the system is looking for all the default programs and associated files. On the left you will have a list with the default programs. Look for the browser you want to set as default and click on it. Then, click on the \u201cSet this program as default\u201d button below. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Of course, you can do the same for every programs on the list, if they are designed to do the same things. For instance, you can set a different program for viewing photos, playing music or playing movies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8216;s say that you made a mistake and you set Internet Explorer as the default browser, or you just installed Opera browser just to see how it works and you accidentally clicked YES on the dialogue box that asked you if you want to set is as the default browser. You can live through this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}