“set defaults by app” duplicated ‘app’ entries.

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This isn’t a problem – issue as it doesn’t seem to interfere with anything, but it is odd.

For a long time now – multiple Win10 releases – Adobe Acrobat XI Pro (11.0.20) is duplicated in my list of apps  (screenshot attached).   I note this as Edge keeps ‘stealing’ PDF rights and I have to go back and reset them to Acrobat.

This is odd, it seems to me.   I just checked and Firefox is similarly duplicated, as is Outlook.

Slightly different, that Corel PaintShopProX14 and PSP 2022 both show up in this list, although the X14 version I uninstalled years ago (and indeed, it doesn’t show up in the installed programs list).

I would guess this has something to do with registry entries, though I do us a couple of registry cleaner utilities from time to time, to give me something to do  (albeit not to have to fix problems from them – to this point I’ve never had a problem, touch wood).

An interesting issue, if anyone knows what is going on there.

Thanks  Richard

 

 

 

 

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I think the duplications are for different file type.
Look at default apps by file types.

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This doesn’t seem to be the case.

And the same thing is happening on the laptop though this time with three separate instances of Acrobat.

When I open the Acrobat instance to see the associations, the list is identical.   I’ve attached a pdf of the screen shots:  the first is the list with the three, and the subsequent shots the various instances in sequence.  Identical.

 

R

 

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