XnView Software

Hello!

XnView is my favorite image browser! I use it for 5 years. It always was the default image browser.
But now i changed PC. There is Windows 7 x64. Unfortunately on double click by jpg file it always opens in Windows Life.
I changed XnView options several times: marked/unmarked jpg in Associations, reinstalled program. Tried to save setting in registry and in XnView folder. Nothing helped
But images are opening in XnView if to select it in context menu of file.

Please, help me to resolve this problem!

It's a known issue:

• (Unofficial) XnView file association manager
• Vista Default Programs suggestion
• Non-working associations
• File Associations are NOT working on Windows 7
• Windows 7 file associations
• Win7 issues?

I've learned all this solutions and found 2 effective for my situation ways:
1. http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=19277;
2. setting up "use as default application" in "open with..." Windows dialog (don't like to use this variant: sometimes the are some problems with file icons);

I used the 2nd for "jpg". Comparing registry backups before this operation and after it showed the reason of this strange behavior of Windows. So, there is the 3rd solution:
3. renaming containers "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.bmp\UserChoice", "...\.jpg\UserChoice" and so on in registry (e.g. "UserChoice_").
I've never selected "WindowsLive PhotoGallery" as a default application for this image types (as it was written in registry: Progid="WindowsLive.PhotoGallery.bmp.14.0"). Another formats (e.g. "cr2") don't have such containers inside "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.format_extension". So, I think that it is a normal way.

I've used the 3rd variant for another popular formats. It helped me. May be XnView file association manager (the 1st variant) does it automatically. I don't try it, because prefer not to use programs when I don't know what they are doing.

Thanks for help!