Like its earlier versions, Windows 11/10 chooses its default players to run your music and video clips. But, what if you do not like the default media player and instead, want a different program to ...

In Windows 8, Windows Media Player is no longer the default program to open your music files such as MP3 files. When you open a MP3 file, the Music app is used to open and play the file instead. If ...

MacBook Pro computers running the OS X operating system come with DVD Player, an application that automatically opens when you insert a DVD into your optical drive. If someone inadvertently changed ...

If you've been hoping for YouTube to drop the notoriously buggy Flash video format as its default player, well, good news. Nearly five years after the streaming giant started supporting the HTML5 ...

Google could soon let users select a default music player for Now Playing results. The company has updated its Now Playing support page to highlight this change, but it is currently unavailable. We ...

The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...

Though Windows Media Player is your computer's initial default media program, each subsequent player that you install tries to replace it. After you've installed several players, Windows may associate ...

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 ...