Fix An app default was reset Error in Windows 10

morgish · 14 Nov 2017

Hi Shawn,

Are you able to explain how this works (fixes the issue)?

Cheers,
Kris

Brink · 14 Nov 2017

Hello Kris, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

The blue note box at the top of the tutorial explains what the fix essentially does. Doing this prevents this notification.

morgish · 14 Nov 2017

Brink said:

Hello Kris, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

The blue note box at the top of the tutorial explains what the fix essentially does. Doing this prevents this notification.

Cheers Brink.

Hopefully we won't have to apply this fix once MS fixes the problem.

Brink · 14 Nov 2017

Fingers crossed.

Mumbai · 10 Dec 2018

Do you know why it happens?

Brink · 10 Dec 2018

Mumbai said:

Do you know why it happens?

Usually, it's caused by an issue with the app or a bug in Windows.

marcmy · 19 Feb 2020

Hello, I'm having this issue and it happens on every reboot. Unfortunately this reg doesn't fix it for me. The OS still resets the default apps that I have set myself, just not to the Windows 10 defaults. Instead it sets them to blank, but the file types still open in the default 10 apps. Crazy that 4 years later this issue persists and there doesn't seem to be a fix anywhere on the web. I've searched all day yesterday and today. Many people are having this issue on the MS and technet forums. It seems the only fix is to clean install Windows, but I've never been one to believe that that's the only solution. MS maintains that it's an issue with our programs or that the programs aren't Windows 10 compatible, but clearly they are. I'm using the latest version of Chrome and MPC-HC, and I just did a fresh install a couple weeks ago.

Brink · 19 Feb 2020

marcmy said:

Hello, I'm having this issue and it happens on every reboot. Unfortunately this reg doesn't fix it for me. The OS still resets the default apps that I have set myself, just not to the Windows 10 defaults. Instead it sets them to blank, but the file types still open in the default 10 apps. Crazy that 4 years later this issue persists and there doesn't seem to be a fix anywhere on the web. I've searched all day yesterday and today. Many people are having this issue on the MS and technet forums. It seems the only fix is to clean install Windows, but I've never been one to believe that that's the only solution. MS maintains that it's an issue with our programs or that the programs aren't Windows 10 compatible, but clearly they are. I'm using the latest version of Chrome and MPC-HC, and I just did a fresh install a couple weeks ago.

Hello marcmy, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If you like, you could see if doing a repair install may fix this without losing anything to hopefully avoid a clean install.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

marcmy · 19 Feb 2020

Brink said:

Hello marcmy, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If you like, you could see if doing a repair install may fix this without losing anything to hopefully avoid a clean install.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

Thank you. It may come to that but I was hoping to avoid it as if I do recall I will have to reinstall drivers and some software. I was hoping to find a fix somehow so that this could be solved once and for all, but that may not be possible.

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Well, repair install did the trick, and it's as if nothing was even changed. Even driver versions stayed the same. Still a shame it had to come to that, but it was a very painless solution.