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Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files

6 points - last Thursday at 2:38 PM


v1.44121.1 2026-09-02 > Added Claude to the β€œOpen with” menu for common work files, including spreadsheets, PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, text files, and images, on macOS and on Windows (Microsoft Store and MSIX installs).

I don't recall I ever approved anything, somehow the Claude app associate itself with some common formats like .json, .csv, .markdown, .rtf, .docx, etc. on my Windows 10 machine, even though I already have Cursor, Notepad, New Notepad App, LibreOffice... that can handle these files and associated.

I am not sure how this happened and how would Windows (10) allowed this to happen. Regardless, I don't appreciate the move trying to become "the default" at all, considering it's a rate-limited, connection-required app that does not really allow the user to directly edit the file.

  • ferguess_k

    yesterday at 10:21 PM

    Yes this is so annoying that I uninstalled Claude.

    • AbbeyLubber

      last Thursday at 3:37 PM

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      • Arad883

        last Friday at 3:12 AM

        [dead]