{"id":2385,"date":"2019-03-30T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2019-03-30T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:56:58","slug":"cant-set-default-app-for-blend-file-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/cant-set-default-app-for-blend-file-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t set default app for .blend file on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Can&#8217;t set default program for .blend files to Windows store version of Blender<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually is not a problem as you&#8217;ll get asked if you want to set a default program.  When you hit yes, blender does not show up in the list of apps.  That wouldn&#8217;t be a problem, except Blender is from the Windows Store, so there is no launcher in the ordinary places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resolution:<\/strong> Install regular Windows installer from Blenders website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other Info<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if the issue is with the Store or Blender.  The .blend file type does not show up in the Windows Settings under  &#8220;Apps -> Default apps -> Choose default apps by file type&#8221; and Blender doesn&#8217;t show up under &#8220;Apps -> Default apps -> Set defaults by app&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Can&#8217;t set default program for .blend files to Windows store version of Blender Usually is not a problem as you&#8217;ll get asked if you want to set a default program. When you hit yes, blender does not show up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/cant-set-default-app-for-blend-file-on-windows-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,181],"tags":[597,596,13,598,273,182],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","category-windows-10","tag-blend","tag-blender","tag-microsoft","tag-store","tag-windows","tag-windows-10-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}