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Win10 - Make Fireworks default for jpg, png, etc

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August 2, 2018
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I couldnt find a fireworks forum so apologies if this is in the wrong place.

In win10 1803, All of the default programs to use for image files such as png, gif, jpeg, etc, were changed from Fireworks to Illustrator to me. This is, not what i want.

Im familiar enough with win10 to find the control panel that changes programs used by default for file types, but only Illustrator is an option, and there is no option to manually find an exe file to use. I see no way of making fireworks default from this control panel.

Is there a trick to get fireworks to show up on the "allowed" list?

Is there a way/menu trick from *inside* fireworks to have it set itself as the default program to be used?

ive tried googling but oddly all the results dont even mention Illustrator usually just acrobat reader =/

Any help appreciated. I do a ton of quick image resizing - ctrl+J to change image size, maybe a quick canvas modify if needed, save. In the old days i could do all of this in Fireworks and be done... by the time illustrator has even finished loading now =(

EDIT - if its not possible to set it as default, a "better than nothing" fix would be if i could right-click on a jpg and choose "Open with..." and Fireworks was listed there. It is not.

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strangeporkAuthor

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when i right clicked i have no "more apps" option at all, just to search Microsoft app store

Sjaani

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That's odd, we have the same version of Win10, under the 'Search the Store' option I also have 'Choose another app'

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strangeporkAuthor

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i did many uninstall and reinstalls, did not work

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strangeporkAuthor

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Sjaani That is what i had hoped would be standard, but it was not. Although Fireworks CS6 runs great on my system, it was not listed as a choice for default apps, nor was it listed if i right clicked on a jpg and chose Open With...

But i fixed it! It is not pretty but it was fast.

For .jpg, .jpeg, and .png, i did the following for each

- launch Regedit

- create three keys for the 3 filetypes in

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.png\OpenWithList

(you probably already have an Illustrator.exe key in that folder)

I created a Fireworks.exe key. It was correctly set to be of type REG_SZ by default, but you have to double click it and then hit OK to change its value from (value not set) to <blank>

so i created three Fireworks.exe keys in the OpenWithList folder for the .png, .jpg, and .jpeg Folders, rebooted (not sure if that was needed), and now it all works great! I can right click on those file types and now Fireworks is an option (and works!)

Thx all for the direction and quick support!!!

matt

Sjaani

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Glad you got it to work. I wonder if an uninstall and reinstall would have fixed it as well.

Seems odd that you had to go into regedit.

Did you try going a few steps beyond the initial right click, it took another two steps of 'more apps' before it showed up for me.

Sjaani

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I'm on Win10 1803 I've just installed Fireworks CS6 to give it a test.

If I go through Settings > Default Apps > Then Choose default apps by file type Fireworks shows up if I scroll down to .jpg

I could also right click on an image and choose Open with... Choose another App then More Apps it does eventually show up.

Opened an image, it worked fine.

Is this the same path you are using to try to set the default?

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strangeporkAuthor

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Works great! Listed as CS6

Larry G. Schneider

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What has been reported here is that CS6 is loosing its ability to run on the more recent versions of Win 10. It will probably take some fiddling around with the Registry but I can't give exact instructions as I am on a Mac. Maybe someone else can offer help.

Larry G. Schneider

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The first question; Is Fireworks installed on your computer? Can you access the .exe file? If so, does it function properly. Fireowrks was dropped by Adobe a couple of years ago so the likelyhood of it running on a new version of Win 10 is slim to none. You might get it to function by installing a Win 8 virtual machine and running it there.

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