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I changed the EXE name of Windows Media Player from wmplayer.exe to wmplayer2.exe to use DPI compatibility settings. I can edit the shortcut of WMP and launch it directly, but doubling clicking a music file does not work any more. To fix that, I want to set wmplayer2.exe as the default "Music player" in Settings -> Apps -> Default apps -> Music player.

The problem is that if I click the "Choose a default" button, it shows only a few applications, search Windows store, but not a browse for a file button. I think I need to add an arbitrary EXE to that list by telling that the EXE is a music application. But how can I do that?

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  • See superuser.com/a/1458394/855367 (the command line part).
    – Reddy Lutonadio
    Apr 24, 2021 at 7:05
  • @ReddyLutonadio Thanks, but thay seems to be a way to associate a specific extension to an EXE. If I use that way, I have to repeat it for all audio file extensions. FireFox and VLC somehow already shown up in the list, so there should be a way to add my EXE there, shouldn't it?
    – Damn Vegetables
    Apr 24, 2021 at 11:12
  • Ah, I forgot that file associations would be a problem with my file copy approach. Adding the copy as a registered media player would be fairly painful, involving duplicating a bunch of Registry keys. I edited my answer to your other question with an alternative approach that modifies the original wmplayer.exe.
    – Ben N
    Apr 24, 2021 at 16:10

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