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Re: Photos App not working "Invalid Value For Registry"
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.
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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
