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Make Windows Media Player the default audio player in Windows 8 |
July 02, 2013
Like many Windows 8 users, I spend most of my time using Desktop mode, which affords me a more Windows 7-like experience.
However, every so often the OS kicks me into an app that I don't especially like or want to use. For example, my home-phone service (Ooma) delivers voice-mail messages to me as MP3 email attachments. When I open one, it fires up Microsoft's Music app, which inconveniently bounces me out of Desktop mode.
And, needless to say, if I want to listen to a song from my collection, double-clicking it produces the same result: the Music app.
I want audio files to open in the same place they did in Windows 7: Windows Media Player. Fortunately, that program is still around in Windows 8; it's just a matter of modifying a setting so it becomes the default. Here's how:
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043410/make-windows-media-player-the-default-audio-player-in-windows-8.html#tk.rss_howto
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