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Working with File Types and Programs (Apps)

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File Management Made Simple, Windows Edition

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One of the more frustrating aspects of using a PC is when you click or tap on a file to open it only to find that it doesn’t open in the program you were expecting it to. This is especially irksome when a given file used to open in a familiar program but then suddenly and for no apparent reason opens in a different one.

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Moran, J. (2015). Working with File Types and Programs (Apps). In: File Management Made Simple, Windows Edition. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1082-6_6

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