Solved No association with .jpg files

Tec numb nuts · Jul 20, 2021

I am running the latest Win11 downloaded from this forum today.

I cannot set a default app for .jpg, I want it to open with Irfanview, it keeps opening with MS Photo unless I right click and choose Ifanview
As you see .jpg does not exist.

But if I search for .gif, that's OK. Anyone any ideas how to fix or is it a bug.

Brink · Jul 20, 2021

Hello,

Check to see if you may be able to use option 1 in the tutorial below to set the default app with the "Open with" context menu instead.

Choose Default Apps in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you different ways to set default apps used to open file and link types for your account in Windows 11. A default app is the program that Windows has assigned to open a file or link type with by default when you open it. Default apps you choose will only apply to your...

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Tec numb nuts · Jul 20, 2021

I have tried all you suggest to associate this file, I just tried .gif, .txt, .pdf and when you select properties there IS a change button, but try .jpg properties and it does not have a change button as shown. It is if Win 11 has this file association missing. When I do a windows search for *.jpg I get no results, yet I have thousands. ???

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Dru2 · Jul 20, 2021

Are you sure there's no issues with you jpeg files, cause I can change my file association just fine. That said, I don't use Infanview (Photoshop user) so I can't say what it does on doesn't. Anyway...

Windows 11 Pro x 64, 21H2 (OS Build 22000.71)

Tec numb nuts · Jul 20, 2021

I think I have found the fault, in Irfanview 64bit the association with jpg & png keeps un-ticking itself.
I tick it, click Ok to save, close it down. Open it and the ticks have gone.
I have just uninstalled Irfanview and reinstalled it again along with the plugins and its just the same story again.
So it would seem Irfanview has a fault with Win 11 but not with Win 10, I will use MS Photo until I sort it.

Dru2 · Jul 20, 2021

Thanks for the feedback.

blacxarea · Jul 20, 2021

This one still works in Windows 11:
Windows Photo Viewer

Dru2 · Jul 20, 2021

blacxarea said:
This one still works in Windows 11:
Windows Photo Viewer

So does the default "Photos" app installed with Windows 11 (and Windows 10).

jtmal0723 · Jul 20, 2021

Tec numb nuts said:
I think I have found the fault, in Irfanview 64bit the association with jpg & png keeps un-ticking itself.
I tick it, click Ok to save, close it down. Open it and the ticks have gone.
I have just uninstalled Irfanview and reinstalled it again along with the plugins and its just the same story again.
So it would seem Irfanview has a fault with Win 11 but not with Win 10, I will use MS Photo until I sort it.

This may be moot, but have you tried running Irfanview as an administrator (Right click, Run as administrator) and tried to set the associations that way? I had to do that with 7zip back in the day.

Dru2 · Jul 20, 2021

The only problem with "Run as administrator" is you then keep being nagged to approve using the app

JimJoe · Jul 20, 2021

Where are you saving Irvanview ? Hopefully not in Program Files.

Dru2 · Jul 20, 2021

JimJoe said:
Where are you saving Irvanview ? Hopefully not in Program Files.

Care to elaborate?

If the app is a 32-bit version it would go in "Program Files (x86)" for 32-bit applications. If the app is the 64-bit version it would go in "Program Files" for 64-bit applications.

IrfanView Frequently Asked Questions

www.irfanview.com

Section 1, question 2: How to properly install IrfanView or Plugins?

Winuser · Jul 20, 2021

Tec numb nuts said:
I am running the latest Win11 downloaded from this forum today.
View attachment 3622
I cannot set a default app for .jpg, I want it to open with Irfanview, it keeps opening with MS Photo unless I right click and choose Ifanview
As you see .jpg does not exist.
View attachment 3624
But if I search for .gif, that's OK. Anyone any ideas how to fix or is it a bug.
View attachment 3625

Irfanview is working OK for me. How are you getting the Choose default by file type screen? When I go to Settings > Apps > Default apps I can scroll down to IrfanView and click on it and select what file extension I want IrfanView to open.

Winuser · Jul 20, 2021

Dru2 said:
The only problem with "Run as administrator" is you then keep being nagged to approve using the app

You don't need to run as a Admin. I'm using my user account and not my Admin account and IrfanView works OK.

Dru2 · Jul 20, 2021

Winuser said:
You don't need to run as a Admin. I'm using my user account and not my Admin account and IrfanView works OK.

I'm not talking about log-in accounts. I was talking "Run this program as an administrator" from the Combability tab of said app...

Run this program as an administrator.JPG

When you do that every time you go to open the app windows will greet you with the nag box "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device". Yeah, you could simply right click and choose run as administrator, and be greeted then, but be aware that setting doesn't stick, thus the check box under compatibility tab :wink:

Tec numb nuts · Jul 21, 2021

When I got up this morning I was greeted with 6 Windows updates which I executed.
I wondered if it might cure the .jpg fault I have. I then went into settings/apps/default apps and typed in .jpg in the search for "Set a default for a file type" and this time it came up as associated with "Photo" whereas before it could not find that type of file.
I clicked on the Photo bar and selected Irfanview as the default and it changed OK and now all my images open with Irfanview as they did in Win 10.
Many thanks to all for the help :thumbsup:

abactuon · Jul 21, 2021

Winuser · Jul 21, 2021

Dru2 said:
I'm not talking about log-in accounts. I was talking "Run this program as an administrator" from the Combability tab of said app...

View attachment 3657
When you do that every time you go to open the app windows will greet you with the nag box "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device". Yeah, you could simply right click and choose run as administrator, and be greeted then, but be aware that setting doesn't stick, thus the check box under compatibility tab

I know and they don't need to use the run as Admin.

Dru2 · Jul 21, 2021

If you read through the thread you'd understand why I said what I said; which wasn't addressed to you.

Thanks.

Manigue · Aug 17, 2021

Tec numb nuts said:
I am running the latest Win11 downloaded from this forum today.
View attachment 3622
I cannot set a default app for .jpg, I want it to open with Irfanview, it keeps opening with MS Photo unless I right click and choose Ifanview
As you see .jpg does not exist.
View attachment 3624

I have this exact same problem with Irfanview Ver. 4.58 on Win11 Ver. 21H2 Build 22000.132(Dev Channel) in secondary drive.
I DO NOT have this problem with Irfanvirew Ver. 4.58 but on Win 11 Ver. 21H2 22000.132(Beta Channel) on primary drive.
For some reason the Dev version won't let me change the default for JPG by any means.