Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
by jodrellblank on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:23AM
(#27524888)
Your image viewer is editing registry keys to set itself as the file extension handler instead of using the correct way - the correct way is to register itself as a new handler so Windows prompts the user whether to change to the new program or not. Trying to make the change by editing registry keys is a pattern used by shady devs to hijack file extensions without user consent, and as s user defence Windows rejects the change and resets the file handlers to default.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96...
Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
by naikrovek on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:11PM
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it's because your preferred image viewer isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and windows is correctly doing what it can to make sure you're using an image viewer that works.
Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
by simonh on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:22PM
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If it wasn’t successfully performing the functions of an image viewer, don’t you think the user would notice?
Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
by jodrellblank on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:24AM
(#27524896)
The user has noticed, and is incorrectly blaming Microsoft for the software’s problems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524888
Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
by cuddlybacon on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:47PM
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It's not properly boosting usage metrics for first-party Microsoft apps!
This is my biggest pain points of windows 10. Why is it OK for windows to change my default image viewer everyday, with the some obscure message "there is a problem with your image viewer, we changed it to preinstalled image viewer from Windows"? Why? My image viewer is running perfectly OK, it has never crashed. I don't understand it at all.