Has Windows 10 reset your default apps back to Microsoft stock?

Yesterday, The Inquirer reported on how Windows 10 was resetting some changed app defaults back to Microsoft’s own bundled universal apps.

In the primary example given, image viewer Irfanview was displaced by Windows 10’s own Photos app, a change that had been instigated, it seems, by cumulative update KB3135173.

It’s not a change I’ve personally experienced, mainly because Photos is the one Microsoft app I still have as the default, and none of my other defaults have altered after installing that update either. But that said, it would hardly be a first for Microsoft.

Since I updated Windows to the new OS I’ve found myself having to change the default apps back to my preferred choice on more than one occasion. Microsoft Edge in particular was a pain, once refusing point blank to relinquish the default web browser spot even though I had changed it in both Settings and Control Panel, and no one in their right minds would opt to use that half-baked browser as the default when there’s the infinitely superior Chrome and Firefox available.

Edge also desperately wanted to be the default PDF viewer, despite my having an actual PDF viewer installed, and sneakily reclaimed that spot too.

Fortunately, Edge Blocker came to the rescue here, telling Microsoft Edge in no uncertain terms it wasn’t required.

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Windows 10 hasn’t changed my default apps for a while now, which makes The Inquirer’s story interesting to me. Is the 'new' problem isolated to just a few unfortunate users or is it more widespread?

Have you experienced an issue with Windows 10 resetting your app defaults?

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