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Comment by Erlangen | Hacker News Reader

> resetting your default apps regularly

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.

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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...

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.

If it wasn’t successfully performing the functions of an image viewer, don’t you think the user would notice?

It's not properly boosting usage metrics for first-party Microsoft apps!

The user has noticed, and is incorrectly blaming Microsoft for the software’s problems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524888

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