#Set default program to open .zip files how to#

Hmmm, that PATH environment variable looks suspiciously messy (Windows is supposed to ignore extra backslashes, but you also have duplicate entries and appear to include Anaconda, which should give you at least one python.exe). The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments - including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications - directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine. Here is a starting blurb from this Microsoft webpage: We could promote the stand-alone for people on windows who just want to run the GUIs and a windows linux environment for people who want the command line or the development branch from git.ĭo you know much about this new possibility ? PmagPy was built on a unix type system and works with a lot less problems there. I have not installed any of these myself and this might just be another rabbit hole to go down, but it could be much better to set windows people up in the linux environment, if they want to run on the command line. I'm wondering if this might be a better path to take. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHubĪs you might have heard, Microsoft recently added the ability to run various linux environment in windows. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

Which we would want a user to be able to do.Īnyone with more Windows savvy have thoughts on this?

#Set default program to open .zip files how to#

Spin up a new virtual machine, but I am stumped on how to simply fix this, This seems like a problem a user easily might encounter, too. Get-a-python-program-to-run-instead-of-opening-in-notepad This stack overflow question gets at the same thing: I suspect I would have to go into the registry and select python.exe, py files, but there is no appropriate python option available that I tried resetting it using 'choose default apps'įor. This was a big mistake, and now when I try to run PmagPy On my Windows 10 virtual machine, I set Atom as the default program to