Win10 How to open a picture without "Windows Photo Viewer", how do I get it back?

If you're a new version of the WIN10, you'll find that when you right-click on the image, the familiar "Windows Photo Viewer" in the "Open with" menu is missing and replaced by the Win10 new "photos" app. If you are upgrading from win7/win8.1 to a Win10 system, the Windows Photo Viewer will be retained. Here's how to get back to the Windows Photo Viewer option in the WIN10 image open mode:

First, open Registry Editor (1. Win10 How to open Registry Editor),

Win10 How to open Registry Editor

Method One: Run the "regedit" command to open the Registry Editor

Win + R shortcut to bring up the "Run" dialog box, enter "regedit". Enter or click OK, and then click Yes in the User Account Control dialog box that appears to open the Registry Editor.

Method Two: Search by Cortana Microsoft Cortana

by typing "regedit" in the Cortana Microsoft Cortana search box in the Win10 taskbar, you can automatically search to the Registry Editor program Regedit.exe and click on the search results displayed at the top "Regedit.exe" to open Registry Editor.

Second, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\capabilities\fileassociations

Note: It is recommended to back up the registry before modifying

Then, right-click in the right-hand window, select "New-String value" and rename the newly created string value to. jpg, and the value data is set to PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff.

Then, in the same way, create a new string value for the commonly used picture format named. jpeg. png. gif. bmp. PCX. Tiff. ico., and the value data is set to PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff.

Close the Registry Editor and then right-click on the picture and the Windows Photo Viewer will appear in the Open with menu.

If you feel that the above operation is more cumbersome, you can also create a reg registry file to bulk add the above string value. Here's how:

Create a new TXT text document and copy and paste the following code into it:

Note: You can add or modify the image format code in the same format as needed

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.jpg]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.jpeg]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.gif]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.png]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.bmp]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.PCX]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.tiff]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

; Change Extension ' s File Type

[Hkey_current_user\software\classes\.ico]

@= "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"

Then rename the text document to Windows_photo_viewer.reg (or any name), and then double-click to run the Reg registry file to import the data into the registry.

Win10 How to open a picture without "Windows Photo Viewer", how do I get it back?