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File associations
Have you ever double-clicked on a file in OS X or Windows and had the wrong program launch? The battle over file associations on your desktop is pretty fierce, especially when it comes to audio and video media. Installing a seemingly benign program may change all your associations to use the new program instead of your desired applications. If you're tired of having PDFs load in “Preview” and not Acrobat, you'll be happy to know that the fix is extremely easy.
In Windows, just right-click on a sample file and choose Open With > Choose Program... Then, choose the program you’d like Windows to use and click on “Always use this program to open this kind of file." You should be good to go.
In OS X, single-click to select a sample file, then go to File > Get Info > Open With. Here, you can choose your desired application and click on the “Change All” button if you want to make your choice permanent.
You'll have to perform this task for each file type you want to reassign.
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