Can't Change Default Apps Windows 11 (OS Build 22000.120)

This is all utter rubbish! when entering .jpg into " set a default for a file type or link type" the + choose a default is greyed and does not work! typical **** microsoft

I have a new computer with a new OS. Windows 11 Home
I did not install any bloat scripts or any other work arounds.
I installed IrfanView 64-bit.
During installation of Irfanview, I selected to have all image types associated with Irfanview.
Nice. Sweet. Except Win 11 did not allow the action to take place.

When I attempted to open a .png file using File Explorer, it opened in Windows Photos.

I attempted to use Default Apps, but using search, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and several other image extensions resulted in "item not found."
I then uninstalled IV 64-bit and installed IV 32-bit, thinking that this might alleviate the problem.
Each step, I restarted computer.

I attempted to locate the previously mentioned file types in Default Apps. Not found.

I then went through the process of installing Irfanview 32-bit.

Same results as before.

Restart. I tried individual file associations. Guess what. It wouldn't allow me deassociate from the Windows program.

I then uninstalled Windows Photos. I reinstalled IrfanView 64-bit. Same process as before, during installation, it asks the user if they want to associate file types. I selected yes: All Image Types.

Now, instead of opening in IrfanView, it opens in Windows Print Pictures.

Repeat above processes. I decided to see if by installing Photoshop first there would be a different result.

File types .jpg, .jpeg, and several others mapped to PS, but .png still won't.

I've uninstalled all 3rd Party image and video products and reset default associations.

Your blithe remarks to suat.cini are dismissive and disrespectful.

I do not want to have to go into registry to make all of these changes.

Thank you.

JW

Easy there, dude! Don't have a cow, man!

Not sure how I got into this thread, but-

Don't be so harsh on MS and Windows. I've had a few nastier problems with Linux. (usually Ubuntu)
For graphics I usually stick to Irfanview, but alas it needs WINE to run in Linux, and it's too complicated to upgrade it and choose and mount the proper subfolders, etc.. in the Windows partition...

I've tried to convince Irfan to port his wonderful Irfanview to Linux, but he's probably too busy fighting Serbian imperialists in Sarajevo and the wild mountains of Bosnia... ;-) .

Gee- I've never heard of Fotografije. I'll give it a try. Does it run in Linux as well?

WHY SO MANY STUPID PROBLEMS WITH YOU MICROSOFT,

Because of Windows having corrupted or destroyed my work by restarting due to an update WITHOUT MY EXPLICIT APPROVAL, an issue you still have no fixed I stopped using it on one of my computers.

Now on my new computor, I got Windows 11 thinking that it can't be bad.

THIS IS SUCH A BASIC THING YOU HAVE REMOVED, WHY??

I cann't disassociate by you, Microsoft, appointed apps from their associated file extensions.

There is literally no .mp4 or .jpg etc. to pick that file extension's default application.

There is also no way to permanently make an application be associated with an extension.

I already had to screw around trying to remove that waste of time screen context menu in order to make the context menu (right click) look as it should, and then I got into this. All of this in the mere 5 days that I've owned this PC. How much time is the user expected to down into setting up what shouldn't be something to set up to begin with but should work out of the box?

I am hopefully going to be able to change the OS on this PC as well, since I can see that this, the lack of the option to chose default apps, is a dead issue, seeing how it's been first reported more than 2 years ago.

Edit: I typed this out at the end of my wits and also far too late into my night (because of this) so that's why the grammar errors and the venting nuance.

Thanks for pointing that out. Will fix the DefaultIcon. It's now fixed.