MsMurda Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Please help, this is driving me crazy. It seems every picture on my laptop has defaulted to a paint.net image and I can only open files in paint.net and I just downloaded a whole folder of older pictures from carbonite and again, every pic has an extension of paint.net image. I love paint.net but I don't want to open every pic in it. When I right click an image, I don't have an "open with" option, just "open" which brings me right to paint.net. I have Windows 8, please help!!! Thank you greatly in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Right click on an image and click "properties" Triple check to make sure it isn't a .pdn filetype There is a line that says "Opens With:" with a button that says "change" next to it. Click the "change" button Select "windows photo viewer" from the list 1 Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsMurda Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 Thank you for your reply. I had previously tried what you suggested but I didn't have an "open with" option when right clicking my pics. I did, however, figure it out. Apparently, some time ago I must have set paint.net as my default viewer for all jpg's. I was able to change it in "Default Programs" in my laptop's settings by unclicking jpg in paint.net and re-setting my Windows Photo Viewer as the default. Now everything is back to normal, yeah. Thanks again though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Thank you for your reply. I had previously tried what you suggested but I didn't have an "open with" option when right clicking my pics. I did, however, figure it out. Apparently, some time ago I must have set paint.net as my default viewer for all jpg's. I was able to change it in "Default Programs" in my laptop's settings by unclicking jpg in paint.net and re-setting my Windows Photo Viewer as the default. Now everything is back to normal, yeah. Thanks again though.There sometimes isn't an open with option when you right click, but there is ALWAYS a "properties" option, which is what I was talking about. In the window that pops up after you click on properties, there is a line that says "open with" where you can change the default program to open those types of files. Just a shorter way to do what you described. Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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