Make Database/Instance Default Database/Instance on windows

Greetings,
Question:
I have more than one instance on the machine and I am trying to make one of these instances as the default instance. Does anyone know how to do that?, it seems its operating system environment setup more than database setup.
So, when I login to the default instance, I will never need to put the service name except if I want the other instance I'll have to do export ORACLE_SID=.....

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