Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs for each file type -- images files, for example, will open by default in the Windows 10 Photos app.

You can add icons to your desktop in Windows 10 and more easily access the system apps or folders you regularly use. Here's how to do it.

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Send To is the handy right-click tool to quickly share files and photos by e-mail or other sharing software. Here's how to add more software options.

Maybe it's your browser. Or your word processor. Or some little utility. Here's how to make a favorite program launch automatically every time you boot Windows 10.

For that task, you need to inform Windows when you launch the program that you want to do so as an administrator, and then you have to approve the action from a User Account Control dialog box.