How To Change Default Photo Editor In Windows 10

Windows 10's next major release will be themed equally "Creator'due south Update." Microsoft showed off the update this by October. One of the biggest change from "Creator's Update" is the new 3D Paint app, that allows you to create and turn a regular 2D movie into 3D images. It's going to replace Microsoft's decade-old paint app that's built-in from Windows.

Every bit a result, when the Creator'southward Update Windows 10 comes out adjacent spring 2017, any photo "edit" action in Windows 10 will be replaced and open up by a whole new Paint 3D app. If you are running the latest Windows x insider preview, this modify has probably already arrived.

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How To Modify the "Edit" menu to open up photos with a different default Editor

We've covered this play tricks before. Notwithstanding, the old method required the use of Regedit to chase downward a specific path and hack the Windows registry. This new method, thanks to one of the commenter, nosotros no longer need to use the Regedit.

Download this app chosen "Default Programs Editor" requires no installation, run and follow the steps. For us, we desire to select File Blazon Settings, "Edit the default program, context carte du jour, description and icon of file types." The Edit push is a office of the correct-click context menu that would announced for whatever images.

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Adjacent, select "Context Menu," The default programme and right click bill of fare.

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Search for jpe or jpeg extensions

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Edit the "Edit" Command to select a different Program, choose "Edit Selected Command.."

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Under the Program path, select Browse and select the new program you desire pictures to exist default Edit in.

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In our case, we will replace the default Paint 3D to Paint.NET.

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Click Next to continue.

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At present the Edit action should be showing the new photo editor. In our case, we replaced it with pigment.NET. You lot can also choose other paradigm editors such as Adobe Photoshop to be the default Editor.

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Side by side, we want to confirm that this modify also applies to all other prototype file extensions such as PNG format.

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That's it. Now we have confirmed and successfully inverse the default photo edit action in Windows x from the Paint 3D to paint.NET all without touching the regedit.exe. However, keep in mind that this doesn't hateful the Windows registry hasn't been manipulated, this Default Programme Editor only provided an easier UI for the aforementioned underlying change as if nosotros were going to use the regedit.exe method.