How get Windows Photo Viewer working in Windows 10

How get Windows Photo Viewer working in Windows 10

As I mentioned above, this can be done by manually editing the Registry yourself. Follow these instructions:

1. Regedit
2. Go to the following Registry key:

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

   If you do not have such a Registry key, then just create it.

3. There you need to create a bunch of string values, as mentioned below:

   ".bmp"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".dib"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".gif"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".jfif"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".jpe"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".jpeg"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".jpg"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".jxr"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
   ".png"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

   Don’t be confused with the PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff line, the actual Photo Viewer command is the same for all file types. You will get something like this:

   

Right click the file to open with Windows Photo Viewer, and safe as default.