Posted on 05/21/2015 2:59:47 PM PDT by dayglored
Smoother and more stable, but Start menu and tablet issues remain
Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10, named 10122, which includes an effort to fix file association hijacking, where a newly installed application becomes the default for opening documents with a particular extension, such as PDF, docx, jpg or MP3.
In Windows 10, neither desktop nor Universal (UAP) apps will be able to show a dialog prompting the user to change default file associations. Instead, users get a prompt when they next open a document of a type handled by a newly installed app.
The prompt defaults to keeping things as they are, whereas previously an application could place itself as the default when prompting the user.
File associations are a common cause of problems for less technical users. There is no perfect solution though, since users still need to know when to change them and when to leave them be.
An issue with Windows 8, for example, is that PDFs open by default in Microsoft’s PDF reader which runs full-screen. Adobe’s PDF reader is better, and the usual advice is to install it and let it grab the file association. Now the user will have to take a further step.
Incidentally, I tried installing Adobe Reader to test the new feature, but on my box it crashes on opening. This may be nothing to do with the API change, but it is possible, illustrating the difficulties facing Microsoft when tweaking how Windows works.
There are several improvements to the Edge browser, though this is still branded as Project Spartan in this build. These include In Private mode, pinning websites to the Start menu and history view.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
You'd be amazed. I've watched most people mindlessly double-click all sorts of things and expect them to open. The idea of "thinking" before they click is foreign. Doing a right-click-open-with literally doesn't occur to 90% of the users out there. Show them, and they're astonished...
"Wow, okay, that's interesting but why would you do all that, if you can just double-click it?" (Facepalm)
Geeze ... I just got 10074 to behave itself ...
“Undegerminated Corn Meal” is Micro$loth’s code name for their even newer new browser ...
Excellent! LOL
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