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Instead, this tab teaches your PC to set its own clock by consulting

one of the scientific clocks on the internet. To turn the feature on or
off, or to specify which atomic clock you want to use as the master
clock, click Change Settings. (No need to worry about daylight-
saving time, either; the time servers take that into account).

Default Programs

The primary features are duplicated in the Settings app; see “Choosing

Your Default Apps”.

In an age when Microsoft is often accused of leveraging Windows to take
over other realms of software, like web browsing and graphics, the
company created this command center. It’s where you choose your

preferred web browser, music-playing program, email program, and so on
—which may or may not be the ones provided by Microsoft.

You’re offered four links, though all but Change AutoPlay Settings take you

to the → → Apps → “Default apps” pane:

Set your default programs. Here’s where you teach Windows that
you want your own programs to replace the Microsoft versions.
For instance, you can say that, when you double-click a music file,

you want to open iTunes and not Windows Media Player.

Associate a file type or protocol with a program. This window

lets you specify exactly what kind of file you want to have opened
by what program. (That’s essentially what happens in the
background when you set a default program.) File associations are

covered in more depth on “Filename Extensions and File
Associations”. From the “Default apps” pane, you can use “Choose
default apps by file type,” “Choose default apps by protocol,” or

“Set defaults by app” to come at these choices from all the
different angles.

Change AutoPlay Settings. This option opens the AutoPlay applet
described on “AutoPlay”.