XnView Software

user0 wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 1:45 pm

jbusnengo wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 1:28 pm Do I need to completely remove XnView MP and reinstall fresh rather than updating my existing installation?

press 'Set file associations...' button in Settings > Integration

Ah. I wasn't aware of that button. That does appear to work.

I'm still having the same issue. Each time I update XnView MP, the registry setting gets reset to include the typo. It happened with 1.9.0 and 1.9.1. Do I need to completely remove XnView MP and reinstall fresh rather than updating my existing installation? Thanks!

Thanks!

Double-clicking on a .sld file does not open XnView. Upon investigation, I discovered that there's a typo in the registry setting that needs to be fixed.
XnView creates the registry entry Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\XnViewMP.sld\shell\open\command\(default) with the following string:
"C:\Program ...