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Windows 10 Steals Your Internet Bandwidth to Send Updates to Others, Disable It Here

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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">ong back in March,</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> SPRTech reported</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">that Windows 10 will be downloading and distributing updates to others using peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. Now that Windows 10 is released, and</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you can grab with even without any upgrade icon</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">, Windows 10 is busy using your internet connection to distribute updates to other people on the Internet. Actually, Microsoft has done this to reduce the stress on its servers.  Earlier, it was expected that this feature will only work for PCs on your local networks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 10 steals your internet bandwidth </span>due to a feature called Windows Update Delivery Optimization. It is enabled in Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro versions. Windows 10 Enterprise and Education have this feature enabled, but it works only for the PCs on your own local network.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Just like torrents, everyone having Windows 10 on their PCs, by default distributes some updates to the people who need it. This makes the update process for other fast and less troublesome for Microsoft. Using your data connection to share updates may seem like a good gesture, but what if your data connection isn’t unlimited?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">For those who are having a limited data connection, this feature will use lots of your allotted data and you won’t even realize it. Microsoft has said that this feature will only share updates and it won’t download or send any personal data.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Windows 10 steals your Internet Bandwidth, How to Stop It?</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Follow these simple steps to turn off the Windows Update Delivery Optimization feature in Windows 10 to save your data:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This looks a great feature for getting updates quickly and sharing updates with your local network PCs if you are running Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education. But knowing that Windows 10 steals your Internet bandwidth on Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro versions, and spends your data without your knowledge, it doesn’t feel that great.</span></div>
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Windows 10 Steals Your Internet Bandwidth to Send Updates to Others, Disable It Here

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What is Traffic Fingerprinting and How it is Used to Attack Tor Network

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack 10:33 AM

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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Traffic fingerprinting is a technique used to sniff the web traffic by analyzing the data packets’ flow pattern- without removing the encryption. This technique has been recently used successfully to break the layers of anonymity of the Tor network users and hidden services.</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">he Tor network is one of the most used popular system used to provide anonymity to the Internet users. People dive into the dark paths of the Deep Web using Tor network and remain hidden from the ordinary world. People like journalists, hackers, law enforcement officials, whistleblowers – and criminals have been using Tor network from a long time. But, lately, many security researchers have outlined the possible loopholes in Tor network that could be exploited to deploy an attack.</span></div>
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Just a few days ago we read about <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tor Honeypot that could be used to set up a trap</span> </span>to capture the Tor user’s identity. Today, we are telling you about a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/tor-vulnerability-0729" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">research done by MIT and QCRI</a> </span>researchers that outlines vulnerabilities in Tor’s design. Before going into the details, let me explain the working of Tor as traffic fingerprinting is a continuation of the same.</div>
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How Tor works and why it’s called “The Onion Router”</h2>
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A Tor network consists of many Tor-installed computers connected to the Internet. Each time a Tor user makes a request to visit a website like <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://fossbytes.com/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">S</a>PRTech</span>, his/her computer will enclose this Web request in multiple encryption layers, and forward it to the a computer(called guard) which is a part of the Tor network. This selection is totally random and user’s request could be forwarded to any computer on the network. Now, guard computer will peel off the top layer of encryption and pass it to another random computer- and so on. As the wrapped request reaches the last computer, the final encryption layer is peeled off.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">This last computer is known as the exit node and it knows the request’s final destination. Thus, the guard knows the address of the user, and the exit knows the address of the destination. </span></div>
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The Tor network also provides some “hidden services” that protect the anonymity of destination site as well. These websites are configured to access traffic coming only through Tor network. The host’s computer uses Tor routers as the “introduction points” that are used by people to access the hidden website’s content.</div>
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If a person wants to browse the hidden service, a “Tor circuit” is created. User’s and host’s computer build Tor-secured links to the introduction point- that forms this Tor circuit. I<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dentifying more hosts, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">routers,</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and the browser- Tor circuit builds another circuits. It’s called a rendezvous point and once again it has an anonymous location.</span></div>
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What is traffic fingerprinting and how is it used to attack Tor network?</h2>
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When a Tor circuit is established, the systems on Tor network pass a huge amount of data. MIT News writes: “By looking for patterns in the number of packets passing in each direction through a guard, machine-learning algorithms could, with 99% accuracy, determine whether the circuit was an ordinary Web-browsing circuit, an introduction-point circuit, or a rendezvous-point circuit.” To achieve this, breaking Tor’s encryption wasn’t necessary.</div>
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Similarly, using a Tor-enabled computer, traffic analysis could identify the hidden services with 88% accuracy. So, if the attacker happens to be in luck as a guard for a user, he/she can tell which sites the user accessed.</div>
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How to defend against traffic fingerprinting in Tor network?</h2>
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Researchers recommend to mask the sequences to make all the sequences look identical- actually, send dummy data packets to make all different circuits look the same.</div>
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“We are considering their countermeasures as a potential improvement to the hidden service,” they add. “But we think we need more concrete proof that it definitely fixes the issue.”</div>
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Traffic fingerprinting in Tor network isn’t something that could be done over a period of few days. An attacker must spend a long time to collect data and to dig deeper into the network.</div>
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What is Traffic Fingerprinting and How it is Used to Attack Tor Network

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<span style="color: #444444;">As per the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act or CISA bill, the service provider companies would be given an authority to keep an eye on their users. Then in order to defend this act of spying from the previous surveillance laws, the companies will have to share the information of users that seem like the potential threats or “cyber threat indicators” with the government. NSA has already disclosed its <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">snooping tool XKEYSCORE</span> that can get them your complete information just using your email id.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">There have been regular protests by the citizens against the government intrusion, but all the acts are dismissed in the name of national security. The laws such as Electronic Communications Privacy Act 1986 allows <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">government to snoop through your emails</span> and now the CISA bill adds to the woes of the public.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The government’s proposed cybersecurity bill looks like just another surveillance law in disguise. How much of the cybercrime will be stopped- it can’t be deduced, but this law gives the government a complete authority to snoop through the accounts and gather your personal information.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Whistleblower Edward Snowden has previously revealed how NSA compromises the privacy of US citizens and the extent of government’s intrusion. So, for all the details he has diverted, the White House wants to <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">send Snowden to prison</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The CISA bill is currently pushed in the US Senate and will allow the government to collect all the data including those of potential hackers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">There has been an ever going debate whether the government should be allowed to intrude its citizens’ privacy and call it the measures against the cyber threats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Internet is a platform for freedom and self-expression and should remain so. The government needs to come with better plans to counter the attackers without creating fear in the mind of its citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">So, if you visit a public place with open WiFi or your friend’s home, your device will automatically detect the open internet and use it. Thus WiFi Sense does these things on its own and saves you from the hassle of providing tiny details. When you connect to a WiFi network in Windows 10, you’ll have the option to make your internet “shared with your contacts.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Microsoft forum lists its primary features as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Now, let me tell you something more about it. WiFi Sense can make use of your Facebook, Skype and Outlook accounts and download any networks that are being shared with you. It allows your PC to determine who your friends are and who are ready to share their internet with you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Another thing, Microsoft doesn’t ask for your permissions to access the Skype and Outlook contacts as these services are owned itself by Microsoft.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">How to enable or disable WiFi Sense?</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444;">To configure WiFi Sense, you need to go to<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Settings</em> and select <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Network and Internet</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Then head to<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> WiFi</em> and find <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manage WiFi Settings</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Here you can enable or disable WiFi sense on your Windows 10 PC. Apart from this, you can choose the sources that will be used by Windows 10 to share the Internet with – Facebook, Outlook and Skype.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">To stop Windows 10 from sharing your WiFi password, you need to uncheck all the boxes you see in “Manage WiFi Settings.”</span></div>
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How to Stop Windows 10 From Sharing Your WiFi Password

Windows 10 is released and I’ve been writing about the new features Microsoft is planning to provide in this next version of Windows. I...

How to Change Default Browser and Programs in Windows 10

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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">indows 10 is now released and people have upgraded their PCs to the last version of Windows. To smoothen the upgrade process, Microsoft has even released a media creation tool that</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">upgrades genuine Windows 7 and 8 PCs to Windows 10 without the need of any upgrade icon</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">. You can also read our</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">special Windows 10 FAQs</span> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">that will make the upgrade terms and issues clear to you. Well, I’ll assume that you’re here as you’ve already installed Windows 10 on your PC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Microsoft promises that Windows 10 upgrade will save your apps and preferences. It keeps the files and app nicely, but some default programs in Windows 10 are changed fro what you had selected in your previous OS. So, today I’m going to tell you how to change default browser and programs in Windows 10.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">As compared to the earlier versions of Windows, changing default apps and preferences needs a couple of more clicks. This has even urged <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://allbabouttechbyspr.blogspot.in/2015/07/angry-mozilla-ceo-to-satya-nadella-give.html" target="_blank">Mozilla CEO to write an angry open letter to Microsoft CEO</a> </span>asking to bring back the choice and control to users.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">For changing default browser and programs in Windows 10, there are two methods. One is using the new Settings app and the other one is our vintage Control Panel method. Let’s tell you how to it one by one:<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">How to change default browser and programs in Windows 10 using Windows 10 Settings app?</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Using the Settings, not all default apps can be changed. These programs include Music Player, Browser, Video Player, Mail, Calender, and Video Player. For these settings, take a look at how to change default browser and programs in Windows 10 using this method:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Press <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Win+I </em>to open the system menu. Here you can multiple options like system, personalization, update and security etc. Click on “System”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Now you’ll see a new window before you with “System” settings. It’ll be having options like Display, Notifications & actions, Apps & Features etc. Locate “Default apps” at the bottom of the list. Click on it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">A new window will open with default apps for Music Player, Browser, Video Player, Mail, Calender, and Video Player. To change the default app, you need to click on any one of these and a small pop up with the complete list of available apps will appear. Here, you can select you default app.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This method provides only a few preferences. To dig deeper and change more settings, you can use the Control Panel method.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">How to change default browser and programs in Windows 10 using Windows 10 Control Panel?</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Open Comtrol Panel on your Windows 10 PC by typing in the search box, or by right-clicking on the Start button to reveal different options. When Control Panel is opened, locate “Default Programs” and click on it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In the Default Programs windows, you can see different setting related to the programs Windows uses by default. Find “Set your default programs” at the top of the list and click on it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Now comes the final step. You can see all the programs listed in the left and the options related to them in the right. To make any program a default program, or to check its status, you jut need to click on it. Doing this, available options will appear on the right. You can now make this app a default program or customize it a bit more. This was all about this tutorial on how to change default browser and programs in Windows 10.</span></div>
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How to Change Default Browser and Programs in Windows 10

Short Bytes : Windows 10 upgrade keeps your files, apps, and settings, but it changes your app preferences of last OS. Today I’m going ...