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Default Apps in Windows 11: Set Them by File Type

A default is stored per file type, not per app. Eight extensions on the machine here held eight separate entries.

It replaces the password for one site and lives on your device. And no, you do not need a fingerprint reader.

Two recorders are already installed. One of them is the screenshot tool, which is why almost nobody has found it.

Your machine carries two Notepads, and only one keeps your work when you close it unsaved. There were 33 files in its folder here.

Microsoft says a Windows drive typically has three partitions. The one here had six, and the empty-looking ones are the dangerous ones.

The mouse leaving by the wrong edge and the text being a different size are both settings. Four of them, and Microsoft only documents one.

Windows 11 has a discovery setting that hides most devices by default. That is the commonest reason yours never appears in the list.

The number at the end of the message is the useful part. Microsoft publishes what each one means, and the internal names are plainer.

Windows fetches the installer from the vendor with one command, and no search results are involved at any point.

One line names the last time your machine really booted. On a PC switched off nightly, the date is often days old.