I AM able to select any other program (such as 'Paint', etc.) and the change WILL take effect. If I right click on an image file and select 'properties' and then 'Change' the 'Opens with:' portion it will not take effect if I select 'Photoshop CC 2019'. I would like to open these (and a few other file types) by simply clicking on the file itself. I CAN open png files and jpg files in Photoshop, but I need to choose 'open with' to do so. I'm still running into the inability to associate jpg or png files with Photoshop being the default application. I have just checked, and my Premier Pro files have the same issue, which means all the other Adobe apps will be the same.įresh install of Windows 10 and a fresh install of Photoshop 2019 on a new hard drive. Mine is still not fixed, but I think I'd rather uninstall, and reinstall Photoshop than mess with the Registry. I didn't think of it at the time, but it makes sense after reading your post. I went with the default when updating, and found that left me with the CC 2018 versions, which I then removed via the Application Manager. It should be easy to instruct the CC app to uninstall first, then install the new. It's rather disappointing that nothing has been done about this after all these years. The forum is always flooded with this when a new version comes out. If that doesn't work, run the CC cleaner tool and then reinstall. You couldn't know this, but Photoshop should always be installed in strict version order, and uninstalled in strict reverse version order.

This sometimes hijacks the registry so that the old version takes file associations with it, leaving them orphaned.

The default setting for the CC app is to remove old versions after the new one is installed. You see the default is set to Photoshop Image 19? That's the previous version now uninstalled.

Set default programs for opening files