Widows 11 setting default program for jpg files is not working

Anonymous
2021-10-20T17:18:25+00:00

Just installed W11, clean install. I installed Irfanview for my image viewer and simple editing. However it will not associate jpg and png file types, although it did for many other file types. I tried installing as an Administrator. I tried setting associations from within Irfanview. I tried going to the Default Programs control panel and tried to associate jpg files with Irfanview. JPG is not listed in the file types. Nore is png. Both have been taken by Photo Viewer and nothing seems to make it give it up.

I understand that VLC video viewer is also having trouble with setting file associations.

I am using the 64 bit version of Irfanview, latest version. I am using Windows 11 Home.

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Anonymous
2021-10-23T13:01:13+00:00

I think I fixed it. I went to "Apps and Features", found Microsoft Photos, clicked on the hamburger menu on the far right, chose "advanced options" went to the Reset section and performed both the Repair and the Reset functions. After that I was then able to associate jpg and other file types to Irfanview.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-21T21:34:54+00:00

    I can't seem to recreate the process where I picked Irfanview and it asked if I wanted to keep using Irfanview, but I feel like I have tried everything in those menus. It will open once with Irfanview, as long as I do Open With, but just clicking the file will take me to "Photos" instead.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-13T15:24:40+00:00

    It doesn't work in latest Win11, as some filetypes such as jpg or png are not visible on the list and the settings are not modified.

    I cannot express how furry I am.

    Since at least last 10 years 81% of people install Chrome as a web browser just after installing Windows and they still do not acknowledge that their web browser simply goes against user expectation.

    Now they do the same with the default image browser....

    Not to mention default audio players....

    Wasted already 2 hours to try to change the default image browser.... found 311 MILION answers in Google... where non of them within first 50 pages works....

    ... welcome to idiocracy.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-11-24T09:41:38+00:00

    WELL DONE! This is the fix! After doing this you can right click on a picture file, choose 'open with', and then 'choose another app', and voila, suddenly there is the checkbox 'always use this app to open ....(file type)'. This checkbox was missing before. I suspect you can go to options in Irfanview and 'set file associations' and it'll work this time. (It didn't before). I haven't tried.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-21T21:31:25+00:00

    Then I try to use a different app dialog:

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