[Solved] Files new default app is... the Properties window!

[Pofadda]

My wife's Windows 7 machine has suddenly stopped launching graphics files - it launches the Properties window instead! I can launch the .jpg or whatever by pressing the context menu key (right one, on mine) and selecting Open from it. If I just double-click on the file up comes Properties. If I change the default program - say from Irfan View to Paint - the Properties window still appears. Other - non-graphic - files seem to open as usual with their defaults.

 

This started, she says, earlier this evening when she unzipped a pair of jpegs I sent her by Gmail (if that info is of any use).

 

Any ideas what to do to change this??

[KenB]

Hi

 

Try a System Restore to a date just before the problem started.

 

Click on Start > type in ....system restore ..... ENTER

you will be guided by the on-screen script.

DO NOT select the Windows suggested date - select your own ....... one that is before the start of the problem.

 

Your data / files / photos etc will be fine.

 

If this is a laptop make sure the power adapter is connected - you do not want to lose power part way through the process.

[Pofadda]

Well, it went away. I discovered this when I realised that I wasn't being harried to 'sort my computer out'. No-one knows why it healed or how it got that way. Many thanks for your suggestion, though.

 

OTT: You're an administrator - please tell me how to give thanks/like/whatever. Can't find out how to.

Or if I can now edit the OP to say 'Solved'. Can't see a button anymore.

[KenB]

Hi

 

thanks for the feedback - good to hear that your system managed to fix itself :)

 

OTT: You're an administrator - please tell me how to give thanks/like/whatever. Can't find out how to.

Or if I can now edit the OP to say 'Solved'. Can't see a button anymore.

 

There isn't a "Thanks" button as such ........ you have done it by posting :)

I will mark this solved for you.