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Puppet33r
Copper Contributor
Aug 06, 2021

Can't set default app for some common file types in Windows 11

I'm using Windows 11 22000.120 co_release.   I can't set default apps for jpg png jpeg and webm. At least those are the ones that I wanted to change. There's probably a lot more. And yet for those ...
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Gandeloft
Copper Contributor
May 15, 2023

I got Windows 11 a week ago. I haven't been able to solve this since then. This is ******* ********.

 

Point being, this problems is still present in the May of 2023.

I am going back to Windows 10 (this is not the only issue).

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polandro
Copper Contributor
Jun 01, 2023

Gandeloft I managed to remove photos today by using the instructions above. Thereafter I was able to choose Irfanview as my preferred application for the filetypes mentioned.

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    Gandeloft
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 01, 2023

    Hey polandro 

     

    I appreciate you letting the world know about that. I can not try it out because I have installed Linux on that PC because of the issue mentiones here and the plethora of other Windows impediments. The most important one being the amount of data that Microsoft takes via its telemetry which wastes the computer's performance and makes me the product.

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