# Trying to set Windows 10 Default Programs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-set-windows-10-default-programs/779294>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 8, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-set-windows-10-default-programs/779294 "2017-02-08T01:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-set-windows-10-default-programs/779294/1 "2017-02-08T01:46:37Z")

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Start, settings, choose default apps…

I want to set “Windows Media Player” as my default music player. I click, and that is one of the options. (Along with Groove Music, which is the current default, and IrFanView.) So I click on Windows Media Player…and Groove Music remains the choice.

I want to set Firefox as my default browser. Right now, there isn’t any default set at all (just a big box with a “+” in the middle.) I click that, and the options are Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and I.E. I click Firefox. No good; the empty “+” option remains.

Whut?

(You’d certainly imagine they’d allow me to choose _one of their own programs_ as a default music player!)