Prevent Image and Fax Viewer from Stealing Associations

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Normally, the Windows Image and Fax Viewer will steal associations from other image viewers, such as AcdSee, so that when you double-click a jpeg (for example) it is opened with WIFV. To prevent this irritating behavior, delete the subkey inside HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers which I believe was named Preview (before I deleted it, that is).

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Ken

2 years ago

I've tried this and other fixes. Despite all this, and the default program for opening set to "Paint", nevertheless WIFV will open the program.

I prefer Paint's easy cropping, so it's annoying when I want to go through a large batch of images and can't simply open them in paint by double-clicking.