some other viewer. Was there some other viewer that is above yours when you right-click to choose? I am having a similar issue with my audio player, which is very annoying.
Until 10 days ago, opening a .jpg was just a click away. Now I get a message stating, the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format.
I can right click & choose a program to open it but why is it not opening the file as before ?

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