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Photos App not working "Invalid Value For Registry"
I've had this problem reoccur for multiple Azure Virtual Desktop customers throughout the last years (multi-session Windows 10 and 11). When a user tries to open a .jpeg or any other photo-file,...
Hi! We've had the same issue for our customers. I think you will save yourself a lot of pain and just go with a third party app. Honestly, we decided not to use any more resources than necessary, and this issue kept coming up now and then.
Sometime some updates change the default apps for specific types of files. I just had a similar experience when I used Norton to update some apps. When I tried to open a photo, it reported invalid registry value.
Solution:
- Go to settings and click on Apps in the left pane (6th)
- Under Apps, click on 'Default apps' (3rd).
- Scroll down to 'Photos' and click on it.
- Scroll down the file extensions to '.jpeg' and click on it.
- Default apps options will display, choose 'Photos' and click on 'Set default' and default app for '.jpeg' files will be changed to Photos.
- Repeat above for 'jpg'.
- Now photos will be opened by the photo app.
We have seen this issue since the very beginning. Our users have been plaqued with it!
- I had frequent issues with all of the built in windows apps also. Ended up going with the following replacements, and set default apps via group policy:
Photos - Irfanview
Video - VLC Media Player
Calculator - Windows7calculator
