How to Make Windows Photo Viewer Your Default Image Viewer on Windows 10

Windows 10 uses the new Photos app as your default image viewer, but many people still prefer the old Windows Photo Viewer. You can get Photo Viewer back in Windows 10

 It can be activate by Enable Photo Viewer in the Registry

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Run the “Activate Windows Photo Viewer on Windows 10” hack to create the keys and values in the Registry and activate Photo Viewer.

To associate an image file with Photo Viewer, right-click any type of image file—for example, a .png, .jpg, .gif, or .bmp file—and select Open With > Choose Another App.

In the “How do you want to open this file?” window, select Windows Photo Viewer. If you don’t see it at first, scroll to the bottom of what’s listed and click the “More apps” option—it’ll show up. Select the “Always use this app to open .___ files” option, and then click “OK.”

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Windows 10: How to fix Error Code 0x800F081F when installing .NET Framework 3.5

Problem
When you select to install .NET Framework in the Windows Features list in the Control Panel, it does not complete. After asking if you’d like to use Windows Update, it then gives you an error code 0x800F081F

Solution

• Insert Windows 10 installation CD or mount the ISO
• Open an administrator command prompt
• Type the following command (substitute correct drive letter)

  Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:X:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess

Note : Change drive name to "X:" in the path.

You need "microsoft-windows-netfx3-ondemand-package.cab" from windows 10 .IOS file in order to run this command

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