Photos and images not opening on windows 11

Anonymous
2021-10-27T14:18:46+00:00

Ever since I have upgraded to windows 11 I have been having trouble opening image files (.jpg, .jpeg, .png) using the default "Photos" application.

I get the following message: "The specified procedure could not be found"

Weirdly enough, if I right click on the file and use "open with" and chose the default Photos app it works. And if open the file in paint, it opens without any problem. It is only when I double right-click on the file it gives me this error message.

Can anyone help me?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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Anonymous
2021-12-06T21:31:21+00:00

I too had this problem. Don't know what happened but the link between the files and the program stopped working (was fine after upgrade to 11). I tried all of the suggested items below that I could make sense of but none worked for me.

I was at the last thing I could think of, uninstall the program and re-install it. Unfortunately it appears that Microsoft will not let you uninstall this app! It is grayed out!

But in trying to do this I found the fix.

  • Open Settings from the Window menu
  • Select Apps (5th one down) in the left hand menu
  • Select Apps & Features (first one) on right hand menu
  • Do a search or scroll down until you find "Microsoft Photos"
  • Click the 3 dot menu for this item and select Advanced Options
  • Scroll down until you see the option "Reset"
  • There are two options under this; buttons to "Repair" and to "Reset"

Clicking the "Repair" button did the trick for me and I can not double click a photo file and it will open in this app.

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  1. JX313 7,050 Reputation points
    2022-01-14T14:23:51+00:00

    Oh yeah? Before you say that, I'd like to let you know that Google had officially stopped support for Picasa. Google Photos is not available for Windows and is only available for Google devices. A lot of sites saying that you can download Picasa through their sites are malicious.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-14T14:46:23+00:00

    Irfanview - light (5 MB vs 98 MB for Photos.) and quick, yet functionally rich, especially for tasks like format conversion and batch rename.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-18T20:49:10+00:00

    alas these did not work for me.

    i thought updates were supposed to make things better....?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-18T21:07:58+00:00

    it just went back to the same error message when i tried to switch it back to photos :(

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