Photos Will not Open file using double click

JWR

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Photos stored on the PC , in any format but specifically in .jpeg most common format, refuse to open using the mouse double click. The image thumbnail is there for a wide variety of jpeg files in many different folders but when you double click on them nothing happens. It does NOT open. You right click on the thumbnail and click on Open in the list of actions and nothing happens. Does not open. ... YET if you select "Open with" and choose Photos (the name of the MS Photos software) then the file opens full screen as they always have for decades. Another family PC sitting 10 feet away with the same software routinely opens any jpeg image using a double click. The default program for opening a jpeg file is set to 'Photos' identically in both machines.

'Photos' was downloaded and reinstalled on the non-working machine. No change. Exactly the same. Cannot open image files with the program using a double click.

What is going on here!!??
 

Bastet

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That sounds like there’s no program set as default for opening photos. When you right click & choose open with there should be a tick box for ‘always use this program‘.
 

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Grizzly

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I agree with Bastet. Although I never use photos (it always screws up my pictures), I rather go with Irfanview. A lot better program, free and much more flexible
 

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