Use GitHub's Atom Text Editor as Default Text Editor in Windows

Question

I think the title says it all. I downloaded Atom, which comes over as a zip file containing an executable, etc. When I right-click on a text file, source code file, etc, in Windows Explorer and select Open With > Choose default program... I don't see Atom in the list of "Recommended Programs" or "Other Programs" (when I use the arrow to expand that list). If I select "Browse" and use the file explorer to navigate to the Atom executable file and select that, when I return to the "Open with" dialog, I still do not see Atom as an option. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to Windows, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate them - thanks!

Solution

Browsing to atom.cmd seems to work. On my computer (Windows 7), it's in C:\Users\Matthew\AppData\Local\atom\bin.

You can find the directory with environment variable %LocalAppData%. Browse to %localappdata%\atom\bin.