I use a Start menu replacement from startisback.com. Gives you a configurable menu akin to XP/Win7 with great functionality for pinning regularly used applications and documents. Also let's you configure which gestures bring up charms/Metro interface (as few as possible where I'm concerned). It's free to try for 30 days, and then something like €2.99 to buy. I decided it was a small price to pay for my sanity.
click the file you want to open.
Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you use the right mouse button to click the file, and then click Open With on the menu that appears.
Click the program you want to use to open the file, and then click OK.
NOTE: "Always use this program to open this type of file" makes it happen everytime
If a user can't do this. I'm not sure you should be using a computer. They'd be their own worst security risk. Never mind XP.
If a user can't do this. I'm not sure you should be using a computer. They'd be their own worst security risk. Never mind XP.
Perhaps, but what a stupid way to have to define what it is you want your computer to do
If a user can't do this. I'm not sure you should be using a computer. They'd be their own worst security risk. Never mind XP.
You'll have to explain what you mean. Its not defining. Its redefining the default. There's a few different ways. But I don't see why clicking on the file you want to open is "stupid"
You can define the global setting somewhere else if you like.
If its a one off, you can also drop the file on the application icon you want to open it. You can open the file from within the applications.
It similar on most OS'es.
Ah the charmless charms. Windows 8 has two user interfaces (the tried and tested you are trying to use and the irritating and so mouse-unfriendly Modern UI) and in attempting to charm touch screen users it has managed to create one of the most diabolically annoying interfaces ever!
Try these links for tips on how to disarm them
Lack of familiarity with setting a default programme is hardly grounds for suggesting people should not be allowed to use computers. Many people have quite happily used computers for years and never once needed to change the default programme for a particular file type. In fact I would hazard most people never consciously do so. ...
...I fail to see how familiarity with such a task would provide any sound indication of their security risk.
...That is a four-step process with an additional check, involving two hands to do something that most people would not (generally) have needed to do in previous Windows versions for standard file types because the default defined suited the medium they were working through. Then they have the plague of repeating the step for other file types. It is a considerable change for most standard users and not a welcome one or one they would view as providing any benefit to them whatsoever, it would be (and is being) received as a nuisance ... Meets my definition of "stupid"
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