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hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com with another Android quick tip okay so we've got here's my Nexus One and I'm running Android 2.2 and like you saw in a previous video I'm running the Zune launcher for the Zune home app on my screen as my home app and it's really kind of cool I showed you a video about that before I stay tuned to the end of the video and I'll give you a link over to the Zune one just in case you missed that but you know what I decided I don't want to use this all the time just because but I can't just hit home and go back to my old launcher my stock default launcher which in my case I kind of partial to launcher Pro so how do I fix that well the answer is not all that simple there are two ways to do that if you're running Android 2.2 you have to reset your defaults that's a little bit involved so I'll get to that in just a minute if you're running less than Android 2.2 so 2.1 and below there's an app you can download from the marketplace and let me come down here and show it to you and it's really really convenient it's called home selector so just go to the market and look for home selector and what this does is it lets you come in and select what app you want to use for your home screen you tap it you hit OK and you're done now that's not going to work all the time for Android 2.2 because with Android 2.2 they change the way that they're doing things and it's really kind of interesting now you have water called notions and those are basically default ways to handle stuff is that ambiguous enough for everybody so if you tap on say an email link it will open up your default email program which could be Gmail it could be canine mail it could be inbox it could be any number of email apps but it's only going to be one default same thing with browser browser could be your default browser it could be dolphin it could be fennec it could be any number of other things or in this case we're talking about launchers so your launcher could be launcher Pro it could be Zune home it could be a TW it could be all kinds of stuff so how do we change the default apps and that's really what this tutorial is all about so if we go in here to settings into the system settings and down into applications we can then manage our applications which includes the defaults you want to make sure that you select all and not just what you downloaded if you want to change stuff that you downloaded for example that is over here and all this does is it filters the list if you're trying to switch between something that came pre-installed on the device you'd want to use all for example here's ADW launcher which I didn't download it came installed with my rom so I wouldn't be able to see that and downloaded I'd have to use this over here but what we want to do in this example is to come all the way down to the bottom and we are going to find our Zune home and like I said way down at the bottom so right there we open up a Zune home and you'll see right here it says launch by default you've selected to launch this application by default for some actions like pressing the home button well I don't want that anymore so I'm gonna clear that default and just like that I'm done next time I hit home it comes up and says how do you want to complete this action pick one of your launchers so let's say I want to switch over to that Acer launcher I tap that and I'm good but I didn't set that as my default so the next time I hit home it's gonna bring that up again until I put a check in that box to use that as the default action now you do have to select that first before you tap one of those so do the same thing for your browser for your email for whatever you can go ahead and clear defaults it's not as easy to get to as I'd like it to be but now you can go in and easily make that change if you have any questions or comments on that please leave those and down at the bottom of the article or the video if you like these Android quick tips and give it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed to the YouTube video channel already do that now and head on over to pocketnow.com to read our articles that don't have videos associated with them so for pocket now I'm Joe Lee bye