will now open with the Windows Photo Viewer. 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. Click on Photos under Photo Viewer to open the app list directly below. Select Default apps to open the window shown directly below. 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 Click on the Windows search bar on the taskbar and type default apps. 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 happening in the background is Windows is only set it up as the default app for TIFF files 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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