How to - Set Default Applications in oneDesktop

Overview

This How-to guide is to provide a detailed step by step instruction for setting default programs in oneDesktop, including opening PDFs with Adobe, or setting Google Chrome as the default browser.

Prerequisites and Requirements

To successfully complete this action in oneDesktop you will need the following:

Access to oneDesktop, along with credentials
Any files you’d like to open with another program saved

Step-by-Step Guide

Add the major steps and sub-steps involved:

Setting Default Browser
Open Files with a Non-Default Program

Step 1.0 - Setting Default Internet Browser & Photo Viewer

Sub-Step #	Instruction	Screenshot
1.1	While logged into oneDesktop, access the Start Menu, and click on the ‘Settings’ cogwheel.
1.2	In the Setting's search bar, enter in “default”, and click on the option for ‘Default apps’.
1.3	To change the app you’d like to use for a task such as for changing your default browser, click on the currently option for it (ie. Internet Explorer). Then, click on the option you’d like to swap it out with (such as Google Chrome or ImageGlass).

Step 2.0 - Opening Files with a Non-Default Program

Sub-Step #

Instruction

Screenshot

2.1

While logged into oneDesktop, right-click the file you’d like to open with a different program, and click ‘Properties', and confirm the ‘Type of file’ is what you’d like to set, then click ‘Ok’ after confirming this.

For this example, a PDF is being set to open with Chrome, but we want to open it with Adobe instead, so we’ll want to confirm the ‘Type of file’ is PDF under properties.

2.2

Right-click your file again, and this time click ‘Open with…’ and then ‘Choose another app’.

2.3

Select the program you’d like to open the file with (in our example, we’ll select Adobe Acrobat Reader DC).

then check the box for ‘Always use this app to open files’, and then clicking ‘OK’ to confirm this.

The changes documented above are specific to the NIRIX Shared Hosting Environment only.