When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of file. It is possible, though, to open the file using ...

If you want to quickly open a file into a program, the program should support the extension type of the file you want to open, and it should be the default application for the program.

Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

You have hundreds of different types of files on your PC, and probably multiple programs that can open each one. Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default ...

Learn how to remove unwanted Programs from Recommended Programs List in Open With box in Windows 11/10. Edit Registry or use OpenWithView.

How to Open a WinZip File Without WinZip. By default, WinZip compresses files and folders into a ZIP container file, which is one of the most common compression formats available.

A file’s format—the way that it’s saved and encoded—determines what you can do with it and which programs will open it. (You can check its format by looking at the file name’s extension ...

Click the "Open With" option. A list of installed programs opens. Click the "Adobe Illustrator" or another Adobe application icon to open the .ai file in the Adobe program.

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are ...