Windows 10: How to make Windows photo viewer as default photo app as of 12/8/2018?

With recent windows update (1809), I can't make default app for certain image type with "Open With..." and checkbox of "Always open this type of file with this app", which happen to be Windows photo viewer. Although this was an inconvenient method to make an app as a default, I was able to do this before the windows update. But not anymore.


So here comes the same question I have to ask at every update. How to make Windows photo viewer as default photo app?


I can't believe MS made us to keep messing with this kind of problem. We who are familiar with Windows Photo Viewer hate using Photo app. The reason MS can't understand that is beyond my imagination.

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Unable to replace Photos app with Photo Viewer as default (10240).


I'm not making any headway on answers.Microsoft.com so I'm hoping the experts here can explain why I cannot replace the Photos app with Windows Photo Viewer as the default image viewer (in build 10240). From all outward appearances, it seems Windows Photo Viewer is unavailable.

The saga is explained in detailed words and colorful pictures here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...2-83ece717ddfb

If that's too tl;dr for you, here are the bullet points:

• Windows Photo Viewer is never listed as an option when using "Open with".
• "Open with" lets you browse the disk and manually select the desired program. I navigated to "\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer" but it contains no program there other than "Imaging Devices" (wrong). Choosing "PhotoViewer.dll" produces an error message.
• In Control Panel's "Default Program", Windows Photo Viewer is shown to be associated with TIF files and nothing else. Attempts to set JPG to use Windows Photo Viewer fail because, again, its program folder only contains "Imaging Devices" (and the dll).

In an attempt to fix this problem, I used the "nuclear option" and Reset the PC. After Windows 10 (TH1 10240) reinstalled itself, I still couldn't select Windows Photo Viewer to be the default image viewer.

Suggestions to fix this?

 

Unable to replace Photos app with Photo Viewer as default (10240).

This tutorial may help.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

 

Unable to replace Photos app with Photo Viewer as default (10240).

Right there in my first bullet point: "Windows Photo Viewer is never listed as an option when using "Open with".

That would work if Windows Photo Viewer were in the list but it is not.

For everyone's convenience, here's what I wrote on answers.microsoft.com:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...2-83ece717ddfb

1. If I right-click a photo and choose "Open with", Windows Photo Viewer is *not listed* (only Paint and Photos).
2. I select "Choose another app" followed by "More apps" it is still *not listed*.
3. If I continue and select "Look for another app on this PC", I can navigate to "C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer". However it contains only one program called "ImagingDevices" and it is *not* an image viewer.
4. If I display "All files" instead of just "Programs" I can see "PhotoViewer.dll". However, selecting this item results in an error message indicating it cannot be used for displaying photos.