Setting Default File Associations

I've only seen this problem in my Adobe products, so I'm asking here first.
My company has been using Adobe products for ages, and much of our artwork is in old Pagemaker formats (.pmd) and with the update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the newest version of the appropriate application, InDesign CC, is unable to open them. Which I understand, at some point things have to become unsupported or these applications would be enormous. I also have InDesign CS6, which IS still capable of opening the files.
I went into Windows Explorer to try and set the default program for .pmd files to InDesign, but it seems to be incapable of saving that setting. It shows me default options, and a dropdown with extra programs that may work, then I click Browse and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\InDesign CS6 and select InDesign.exe. When it returns to the programs list, InDesign isn't there. Now my PMD's are trying to open in Photoshop CC. (why it tries that as opposed to in design I have no idea.)
Please help!

That's a helpful peice of advice Peter.
That said, this isn't about assigning blame, it's about getting help.
Windows and Adobe aren't interfacing properly. I don't care who's at fault, because I think both have created quality products that I have and will continue to use. This is a glitch. A malfunction. They happen. But when noone takes any responsibility for the problem it leaves me with noone to go to for help. Technical support has turned into the same kind of business as Insurance. Do everything you can to do absolutely nothing to help. And the worst part is that the companies have farmed out their tech support to helpful users, like yourself, whom I believe has nothing to do with the Adobe company, you're just incredibly helpful and patient. People like you are wonderful, but the fact that Adobe leans so heavily upon you (having answered fully half or more of my adobe issues) is no less than average for business these days. And it's sad, because there was a time when companies supported their products, to the point of being able to call them and they'd get windows on a conference call to make sure -someone- got the problem fixed.
Again it's not about blame, it's just about fixing the problem.
But I do thank you very much for the suggestion. I'd imagine I'm not going to have much of a choice in my ability to do this via windows explorer, so I do appreciate the helpful suggestion for how to work around it as best one can.
In truth I didn't expect much in the way of support for a product depreciated for what... a decade?

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