I don't know, but all I can say is, that's Windows 10 for you. You set something to be a certain way, and Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, "fix" it so it's back to the way they *assume* you want it. It's pretty maddening and short of writing scripts of some kind to check and restore settings after every update, there doesn't seem a lot we can do other than constantly re-tweaking our own stuff. I've not had this particular problem with file associations but I've had several instances of things being reset to some way I don't want them after a Windows update. Looks like MS just expects us all to live with it, and never mind all the time we waste putting things back the way they were.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of The Iowa Gal Sent: January 23, 2018 5:20 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Mysterious reset of file associations Win 10 Hey group, I'm using the latest Windows 10 with Jaws 2018 build 1710.36. I don't know what happened, but about a week ago all my file associations were reset. Groove Music instead of WinAmp, Win 10 mail app instead of Outlook, and all documents are opening in Word. I am getting the associations back to my preferences, but can anyone possibly tell me what in the world caused this? And, of course, doing a system restore would affect a bunch of programs and I guess I wasn't willing to do that. Thanks for your ideas, Norma For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
