You can also modify your default photo viewer file associations however it is sometimes easier to do that by reinstalling it and choosing the file association options then. If you already have a default photo viewer installed, you may want to uninstall it before running this reg file. Now from the set of installed applications choose Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (or any other program that you like most) from the list, Tick the box near Always use the. This file may be freely distributed as long as it remains unchanged including this readme.txt with credit. Right click on the icon of the image file that you want to change its associated image viewer application and click on Choose Program. Thanks to Matrix Leader, a huge supporter of MajorGeeks! Now go to Default apps again and set Windows Photo Viewer as the default app.Įven though it still shows that it is the default for TIFF files only, any other picture like JPG, PNG, BMP, etc will now open with the Windows Photo Viewer.
To verify the entries it adds, just right click on it and open it with notepad, all it does is add associations to Windows Photo Viewer in the registry as it's broken in Windows 10 You can double click it OR right click and select "MERGE". Run the attached reg file to merge it with your registry. The reason being that even if you set all defaults for Windows Photo Viewer, what is actually happening in the background is Windows is only setting it up as the default app for. In Windows 10 if you have set Windows Photo Viewer as the default for all programs and the images will still open in the Photos (metro) app this will fix that association problem.
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