Win10 official version of the traditional photo viewer set as the default application method

Win10 official version how to set the traditional photo viewer as the default application? In response to this problem, the following small series will share with you the official version of Win10 to set the traditional photo viewer as the default application, let's take a look!

Begin to explain, users of the new installation of Win10 will generally encounter this problem, and users who upgrade from the old version of Win7/Win8/Win8.1 to the official version of Windows10 will not encounter it. Of course, if you are used to using the Modern version of the photo app, you don't need to care about the following.

Users of the new Win10 official version, if you want to continue to use the traditional photo viewer as the default application, you may find that you can find it in the right-click mode of the file or the default application settings in the Modern version. Not the shadow of a traditional photo viewer. In the traditional control panel, the photo viewer can only choose to associate with the tiff file.
▲Modern version of the default application settings do not have a traditional photo viewer
▲The picture can not be found in the right-click mode of the Windows Photo Viewer
▲The file viewer in the file association in the Control Panel can only be selected Associate with tiff files

How do I fix this? This method needs to modify the registry. If you are afraid of problems, you can use the soft media cleaning master in the soft media cube (click here to download) to back up the registry before operation.

The method for fixing the photo viewer file association is as follows:

• First press Win+R to open the run, and type regedit to open the registry editor.

• Expand

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows Photo Viewer\\Capabilities\\FileAssociations

• Create a new “string value” on the right side, which will be created Change the value name to the file extension to be associated with, such as “.jpg”, and fill in the value data as “PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff”.

After the right-click mode of the jpg file, you can see the traditional Windows photo viewer, as shown below:

Other types of image settings are the same as above, in the registry key When the value data is filled in, “PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff””.

The above is the official version of Win10 brought by this small series to set the traditional photo viewer as the default application method, I hope to help everyone!