Recent content by hershey4

No doubt that would yield more changes to endure than I am already enduring with w11. Unless I can find one that is Windows7 based.

Recent W11 user and it is driving me crazy the default formatting of an explorer search. After every search I am compelled to set View->Details and Details/Preview toggle. It is annoying and wastes time. I want search output to look the way it always has. Is there some magic setting for...

W11 processes are ridiculous IMO. Sad to read there are more than the gazillions that show in Task Manager!! I have to reboot to clear stuff up about once a week. When I was doing the same exact things on my W7 for years, I did not have to reboot for performance reasons ever. The amount of...

No, the icon was not a problem. That seems appropriate to me for a 3rd party app to do that. Just shouldn't be changing the fileTYPE. This issue has been resolved, but thanks for your interest.

Thank you @Edwin for showing your explorer output. I see it is a choice by apps if they takeover that field or leave it alone. I tried another 3rd party app (One Photo Viewer) and it retained the Windows file type of "JPG" in that column. And it seemed to do the job fine. Then I realized...

Good try and it makes sense, but the default value in that key was "JPEG Image". But that gave me the idea to search for "Classic 7 Photo Viewer" as data. A few hits like this key, but surely not what I need: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\Local Settings\MrtCache\C:%5CProgram...

Then why doesn't yours show the type as "Windows Photo Viewer" rather than JPG? The app I am using is just dumb. Not a fan of regedit patches, but I may reconsider. Just another reason why I put off leaving W7 for so long. I am hoping that the successor Photos app might be a decent...

Thanks, but I've got the headings I want. The type column is displaying the type incorrectly (IMO)

I won't get the Photo Viewer that I want.

Could be that they also abuse (IMO) the Explorer Type column.

Here is file explorer in another W11 system. The app that opens the file is not in the Type field. The TYPE field should be Windows' definition of what the file type is. Not the app that opens it. I guess the answer is NO, I cannot change that field. The software behavior is...

I don't understand. It is a .jpg file. I want the file type Column in explorer to also say .jpg.

New to Windows 11 on a regular basis (coming from W7 inch by inch). One of the big negatives for W11 is the default photo viewer. I managed to find "Classic 7 Photo Viewer" somewhere (Store?) and installed it. Much happier with the familiar fast and snappy photo viewer. However, this file...

Sigh..... no go. The first download allegedly came bundled with a bunch of other driver maintenance stuff, but I could not get to the actual driver without buying premium even though it was supposed to be free trial. Coulda been me. Uninstalled. The 2nd one said it was not compatible...

Looks promising! Thanks. Will check them out tonite.