I had the same problem. IrfanView associated to itself almost all files it recognizes.
That isn't what I did. Initially, all options were unchecked. I verified this, and checked only .pcx. It associated pretty much everything else, too.
When I uninstalled and reinstalled, it did not re-associate files to itself, regardless of whether or not I had them checked. Checking the files seems to do nothing, except after three tries I was able to get it to finally associate .pcx to itself. But files which are still associated to it are sort of stuck that way; upon uninstalling it, the files lose their association entirely, and as soon as I reinstall IrfanView, they immediately become re-associated with IrfanView. I have to painstakingly re-associate each and every file type with something else to get them to not be associated with Irfanview, or I can just not have IrfanView installed.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and my IrfanView version is 4.52. I just downloaded and installed the program for the first time today.
This is a major bug and has caused damage to my operating system. Please investigate this serious issue and correct it.
Originally posted by Mij
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When I uninstalled and reinstalled, it did not re-associate files to itself, regardless of whether or not I had them checked. Checking the files seems to do nothing, except after three tries I was able to get it to finally associate .pcx to itself. But files which are still associated to it are sort of stuck that way; upon uninstalling it, the files lose their association entirely, and as soon as I reinstall IrfanView, they immediately become re-associated with IrfanView. I have to painstakingly re-associate each and every file type with something else to get them to not be associated with Irfanview, or I can just not have IrfanView installed.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and my IrfanView version is 4.52. I just downloaded and installed the program for the first time today.
This is a major bug and has caused damage to my operating system. Please investigate this serious issue and correct it.
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