Turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as the Default Image Viewer

Turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as the Default Image Viewer

You can also change the file associations for the specific file types you want.

Open the Windows Explorer

Go to Tools / Folder Options / File Types

Scroll down to the extension you want to change

Click on the Change button

Select the program you want to associate with that extension

Click on the OK button

If the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is set as the default for many of your graphic file types,
you can remove it so other graphics programs can be used.

Run Regedit

Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT / SystemFileAssociations / image / ShellEx / ContextMenuHandlers

Delete the key ShellImagePreview