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Click the name of the new default program. (Once again, if you don’t see it

listed here, you can use “Look for an app in the Store,” to find it yourself.)
Close Settings.

Choosing Your Default Apps

Windows comes with a web browser, a calendar app, an email program, a
maps app, and players for music, photos, and videos. Very nice of

Microsoft, isn’t it?

The courts—in the U.S. and Europe—didn’t think so. They thought
Microsoft was stifling competition by including all these goodies in

Windows. Who’d bother trying anybody else’s web browser, if Microsoft
put its own right under your nose?

Ever since, Microsoft has included a Settings panel like the one shown in
Figure 6-14. Here you can click the name of Microsoft’s program (for web

browser, calendar, maps, and so on), and choose the name of a rival to use
instead.

So what, exactly, is a default app? It’s the one that opens automatically. For

example, if I email you a link to a cool website, the default browser is the
one that will open when you click the link. It’s the photo program that

opens when you double-click a picture file. And so on.