Windows 10: Stop asking How do you want to open this file

This happens a lot. I double-click a file to open and a popup windows appears asking How do you want to open this file?

It already has the program associated with it highlighted, but I still have to check the box to Always use this program and then click OK.

These are file types that are already associated with programs. And yes, I do know how to do that.

All the searching I've done on this topic only tells how to associate file types with programs. But this is happening with files that are already associated with programs.

If there is a setting available to instruct Windows to honour the file type associations already set, that would be great, but I am not averse to editing the Registry or harmlessly deleting whatever program keeps asking this. I recently renamed wmprph in order to prevent it showing "previews" of music files. If there is a program I can rename or delete in order to stop Windows from always asking, that's fine.

In short, knowing that all file types are already associated, how do I get Windows to stop asking this?

Thanks!

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Keeps asking "How do you want to open this file" when opening an image.

Hi,

It's odd that you keep on getting the pop-up of "How do you want to open this file" even you already tick the "Always use this app to open the...". If we're going to look at it, the startup programs or software could have been the reason. However, you already
tried the clean boot environment to no avail. We suggest that you replicate the concern is
safe mode and see if the issue persists. You can also create
another user profile to test if it will be the same.

We're looking forward to your feedback.

 

Keeps asking "How do you want to open this file" when opening an image.

When I try to open an image file (.png .jpg and so on), Windows keeps asking me "How do you want to open this file" like:





After clicking OK, the same dialog box pops again and again, no matter whether I click "Always use this app to open .jpg file" while the chosen software won't open.

This phenomena will only appear when I try to open any image files, other files are OK.

I can right click the image file and choose "open with", by which I can use specific software to open the file. However, it's so inconvenient.

I tried to set the default software in Windows Setting and tried a clean boot, but no avail.

 

In my experience, if you've set your defaults and check marked 'Always use this program...', you should be okay;

However,
If you've since installed another program that handles the same protocol, or

if you've since opened the same type of file with some other program, just once, it'll start asking you all over again.