Open with problem

[conner]

So just about an hour ago i accidentally made windows photo viewer my default "open with" program. That being said, i cant open the internet with windows photo viewer, so i started fiddling around trying to restore it to the way it was with no luck, my computer is brand new so im hesitant to do to much poking around. Please help it will be much appreciated!

 

[nitroman84]

Hello and welcome to SevenForums. Brink has put together a nice tutorial to reset default file associations. Here is the link

 

[conner]

I unfortunately have no idea what the extension is so i dont know which to choose

 

[nitroman84]

Okay that is a little more tricky. Does this happen when you try to open any program? For example you try to open Windows Media Player and Photo viewer tries to open it.

 

[conner]

Yes, along with windows explorer, firefox, skype and a lot of other programs

 

[nitroman84]

Okay, start with the one labeled EXE in Brink's tutorial and see if that cures it.

 

[conner]

Nothing

 

[nitroman84]

Were you able to merge the .reg file?

 

[conner]

yes, the message came up saying the keys and values contained were added to registry

 

[nitroman84]

And did you restart the computer after the merge?

 

[conner]

Yes

 

[nitroman84]

Let me pull up a virtual machine and see if I can replicate your issue. Will post back with my findings.

 

[conner]

alright, thank you

 

[conner]

if its of any help i think it was because i accidentally opened skype with windows photo viewer and the box that said "always use the selected program to open this kind of file" was checked

 

[nitroman84]

I have tried to re-associate .exe files on the virtual machine and the .reg file is fixing it every time. Could you please tell me exactly what you were doing when this issue occurred. I cannot reproduce your exact problem.

 

[nitroman84]

if its of any help i think it was because i accidentally opened skype with windows photo viewer and the box that said "always use the selected program to open this kind of file" was checked

Okay perfect, let me give that a try and see what happens.

 

[conner]

let me know if you have any luck

 

[nitroman84]

I am trying to find a way you were able to open Skype in Windows Photo Viewer, but I can't seem to make it happen. Did you right click Skype and select "open with" or was it some other way? The more details you can give the better.

 

[conner]

well thats the thing, i didnt open it. I right clicked the icon and clicked open with. I was just fiddling around and didnt actually mean to change anything around. im not sure how exactly i got the photo viewer to become what opens the files but it became the recommended program to "open this kind of file"

 

[conner]

it opens the photo viewer when i double click on it and it says "windows photo view can't open this picture because either Photo Viewer doesn't support this format, or you don't have the latest updates of photo viewer"