XnView Software

Thanks for going to all that diagnostic work. Yet I do not think this is needed since i found I can just as well save the pics as jpg and change the ext. on the ones i have if i want to directly open them. But maybe this raised an issue that will help others.

This W/8 difference must be why a MS ...

OK, here is one, and here is the other one, as text files to make it easier.

I looked under the Reg. key listed above (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts), and while i saw no Special permissions, i did notice a difference btwn jpg and jpeg, as seen in this image:

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/749x220q90/703/wbff.jpg

I do ...

That option is greyed out: i have to go to Windows file extension to do it.
You have to start XnView with administrator rights .

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Evidently there is a another issue with W/8. as i cannot deselect anything in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Default Programs\ and choosing a program: all i can do is Select all.

I can go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations ...

See my edit above. That option is greyed out: i have to go to Windows file extension to do it. But that will only let me select all, not individually, or deselect any. W/8.1. Let me look into this more.

.jpeg is associated with XnView, which is why it opens the program, if not the image, when i click on a jpeg file to open it. And as XnView will open the file from within the program or via the shell extension shows that the issue is not a lack of ability. If i use the right click "Send to" option ...

I do have the latest version (2.13) and all the latest jpeg plugins installed. I just noticed though that if i use the XnView shell extension option to open the jpeg then it works, but not if i open the file directly. Does it open the image i sent on your computer?

What is interesting is that the ...

Do you mean 'it will not show any jpeg2000 pics' ??
Yes, not when opening (double left clicked) an image file from Windows Explorer. But doing the same with other formats means XnView opens showing the image, per usual.

Do you men that the program opens with no image displayed??
Yes, even ...

Thanks. I somehow overlooked that. But although now it opens to the view mode, and will show jpg, gif, bmp, etc. formats when i click on them, it will not show any jpeg pics when i do so, and instead the program just loads but with no image, but it will open them up from within XnView.

I have the ...

I have ver. 2.05, and have used Xnview for over a decade, and immediately replace the Windows default (now W/8.1, 64bit) with it, but in the past when i opened a pic that has XnView as the app associated with it from Windows, it would open to the view/editor, but now it opens to the browser, which ...