What Happened to My Photos Icon ?

Hey dbott, i found a solution for you. Here is what you have to do:

1-Run Regedit.exe as admin. (You should also be logged in as admin obviously).
2-Make sure to backup your registry keys before you do this method (in case something goes wrong, don't blame me for it!!!!!).
3-Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.tif
4-Open the .tif tree and click on "UserChoice".
5-Right click on "UserChoice" folder and click on "Permissions..."
6-Click on Advanced.
7-Tick "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object" and click "Apply", "Yes", "Ok", "Ok".


If you have done this and nothing been resolved or your UserChoice folder has disappeared don't panic, do the following:



8-Right click on the .tif folder and click on "New", then "Key"



9-Add new Key "UserChoice", press enter





10-In the "UserChoice" key create a string values:



Right click on empty space, "New" and then "String Value"
The name should be "ProgId" and the data should be "AppX43hnxtbyyps62jhe9sqpdzxn1790zetc" (without the quotation marks). See the screen capture below:









Important!!!! Make sure to restart you computer after the "ProgId" value has changed in the Registry.

Now you might face an issue before reaching step 8, I will show you the example on the .tiff file:

1a- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.tiff
2a- Open the .tiff tree and click on "UserChoice".
3a- Right click on "UserChoice" folder and click on "Permissions..."
4a- Click on Advanced.
5a- Tick "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object" and click "Apply", "Yes", "Ok", "Ok".
6a- If your "UserChoice" folder didn't disappear after this step, try to change the "ProgID" string in the "UserChoice" folder to "AppX43hnxtbyyps62jhe9sqpdzxn1790zetc" (without the quotation marks) manually.
7a- If you received the following message: "Cannot edit ProgId: Error writing the value's new contents."



Click ok,
Right click on .tiff folder tree and click on "Permissions..."



8a- Click on Advanced.
9a- Tick "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object" and click "Apply", "Yes", "Ok", "Ok".

Now change the "ProgID" string in the "UserChoice" folder to "AppX43hnxtbyyps62jhe9sqpdzxn1790zetc" (without the quotation marks) manually.

Restart you computer

Let me know if this works for you.

Video Link:
https://youtu.be/pKh81b-YSLk