Opening attachments. [WIN 10 error?]

[GENER67]

In Win 7 attachments (to e-mails in T bird) can be opened with any program, and can be made to default to that program.
In Win 10 , the same attachments can't be opened, at least there is no choice of "open with" . A list of "apps" come up, with no explanation of what they are for. The only attachment I an open properly is a text file.

For example, in Win 7, and xls file can be defaulted to open office , which works fine.
In win 10 I am advised to get MS Office, with no alternatives, but if I save the attachment, I can easily open it with open office.

How do I find the "open with" function in Win 10? Or was this one of Microsoft's improvements?

[DanRaisch]

Moving to MozillaZine Tech as this is a Windows 10 issue and not a Thunderbird Support question.

If you are seeing a list of apps, shouldn't you be able to judge which one you need to select based on the file type of the attachment?

[GENER67]

The name of an app with no explanation is not helpful.

[DanRaisch]

And that's a Windows issue. You can search on-line for something like "What is xlsx" (or any other file name extension) to find a page like this one which tells you the default program associated with that file format.

[Frenzie]

Right-clicking on a file in Windows 10 gives me this?

• Open
• Print
• Edit
• Open with

[GENER67]

I'll try that Thanks