Windows 10: Open WebP images on Photos app

Hi

How to Open WebP images on Photos app ? its only showing in windows photo viewer.

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Cannot view animated WebP images in Windows Photo Viewer (Windows 7)

I've noticed recently that websites or browsers now show animated image files as WebP images instead of GIFs. Whenever I save them I notice in my folder in Windows Explorer, there is no image preview like there was with GIFs - it's just the generic image
thumbnail. When I click on the WebP file to open with Windows Photo Viewer, I get an error message saying "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because either Photo Viewer doesn't support this file format, or you don't have the latest updates to Photo
Viewer."

I have right-clicked on the file, chosen "Properties" and then "change" to make Photo Viewer the default program in which to open them, but it still doesn't work. I also saw a codec offered online to install so you can view WebP images in Photo Viewer, but
that still doesn't work.

Is there any way at all to overcome this? Or am I stuck opening these files only in Google Chrome or other browsers? It's very frustrating that I can see image previews for the GIFs and open them with Photo Viewer but not these files.

 

I need to open .webp files with the Windows 10 Photos app

I did the registry hack and unlocked Windows Photo Viewer. I can open other image files normally with it but I'm getting a corrupted error with the webp file even though the codecs are there.

 

I need to open .webp files with the Windows 10 Photos app

I need to open .webp files with the Photos app but it doesn't show up in the "open with" context menu and I can't find the .exe file. I know that the Photos app can read it because renaming the extension works.

This shouldn't be hard to do but I can't find a way to do it.