Greetings.
I did a reinstallation of windows 10. I downloaded the latest version, 20H2, and since the reinstallation this notification has appeared:
"an application caused a problem with the default application settings for files ..."
It has appeared to me 2 times, once for PDF files and once for HTML files.
Any idea why these notifications?Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Windows 10 pro 64 bits 20H2
Hi, presumably you are seeing something like this:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...c-709222a68a5e
"an app caused a problem with the default app setting for pdf files so it was reset to MS edge"
A Google search for that message yields plenty of suggestions, including this tenforums tutorial:
Fix An app default was reset Error in Windows 10
Hopefully this isn't another snag with 20H2, just another occurrence of an issue seen many times before,
Maybe it's a problem with the October updates.
I did the test by reinstalling the 2004 version and I also got the same two notifications, for PDF and HTML.
Was that a clean install rather than an in-place upgrade repair install, and have you tried the suggestions I posted?I did the test by reinstalling the 2004 version
I got it on 4 PC's just ignored and rest as I had it looks like ms trying to force you into edge
It's not a new symptom though- been seen on older builds too. However, the new Edge is now in play of course.
Searches haven't shown this being commonly reported though.
I think it only happens in a clean installation, before doing the reinstallation I did not get that message after updating on October 13.
It was a clean installation.
I have the disc with the 2004 version. I have not done the solution you recommend because although it is the same message, it is not the same case, I do not try to change the default application, so the message misses me even more.
What other software have you installed? This 'an app caused a problem with the default setting...' message can be triggered by 3rd-party apps that may use older unsupported methods of checking or setting their defaults. The fix is usually to install a newer updated version of the app.
Older versions of Irfanview were known to do this for example, VLC was another. Both are fixed in their later versions.
So far I have only installed autocad 2014 and libreoffice, but the message did not appear immediately after installing any of these programs.
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