Editing Default (computer science) (section)

===Application software preferences===
One use of default parameters is for initial settings for [[application software]]. For example, the first time a user runs an application it may suggest that the user's delivery address is in the United States. This default might be appropriate if more users of that application were in the US than any other country. If the user selected a new country, it would override the default, and perhaps become the default for the next time the application is used on that computer or by that user. Changing the default for the next run would involve storing user information in some place, such as in [[HTTP cookie|cookies]] on the user's computer for an Internet application.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} In [[Microsoft Windows]], default [[file association]]s associate applications with file types.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-23|title=How to configure file associations for IT Pros|url=https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/how-to-configure-file-associations-for-it-pros/ba-p/1313151|access-date=2022-01-23|website=TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM|language=en}}</ref>