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@Hilltops, Welcome to Tenforums!
Did you use Option #1 or Option #2? 1 is for current user, 2 is for all users.
Hello Hilltops, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)
After you have Windows Photo Viewer restored and set as the default app in your account, you could use Option 1 in the tutorial below to export your default app associations, then use Option 2 to import them for new users on the PC.
Default App Associations - Export and Import for New Users in Windows
This way any new user accounts created will have this already set for them.
Thanks very much for the information Brink. I should have mentioned I had also used the dism import/export method also. It works as in it sets default apps of IE and outlook on new accounts however it will not set the photo viewer to default perhaps because we've had to "tweak" the registry to even get the photo viewer to show up. It would be great if there is some sort of bat file or reg file we could create to run on any new user log ins.
Thank you Brink you have just saved me a fortune on a new laptop. My old windows 7 laptop died on me and I am having to use my Windows 10. I could not print borderless prints from the photos app in Windows 10. I have orders coming in left right and centre for prints and it looked like I was going to have to buy a new old laptop You saved my life you hero!
Forgive me for not reading through the whole thread, as I have read much of it in the past, but I do not recall anything similar to this question I have now.
I believe that Windows Photo Viewer is not a Windows Application with an .exe extension but an executable .dll called through Rundll.exe, and therefore it is called when a set of circumstances require it.
Now for the question:
Is it possible to have a "wrapper" application or script that will call up Windows Photo Viewer and present an open file dialog so that a file or files in a folder of choice can be viewed? Is anyone aware of such an app or script?
Photo no longer open in paint amazing, if it's there in background why do I have to tell windows it can use it don't make sense if you uninstall, photo app windows falls back to paint and photo viewer