How can I link Affinity Photo (MS Store version) to an image viewer as Standard Image Editor?

[iconoclast]

Hi!

And now for something completely different. 😄 I installed IrfanView as my Image Viewer on my Windows PC. Now I want to link Affinity Photo as the standard Image Editing Software to it. But I purchased my Photo version from the Microsoft Store. And because they hide their installations somewhere on the computers of their customers very well, I can't find any file to connect it to IrfanView - even one can also purchase IrfanView on the Store. Crazy!

I already searched on my system partition, but I can't find anything usable. Has anyone an idea?

[Lem3]

I would think this should work for any running program:

Start Affinity Photo, then open Task Manager.
Click the ">" next to "Affinity Photo (2)"
Right click on sub-item "Affinity Photo"
Click on either context menu item "Open File Location" or "Properties"

[David in Яuislip]

I created a shortcut on the desktop and pointed Irfanview to that, no idea if it would find your hidden file though, ggod luck

[iconoclast]

1 hour ago, David in Яuislip said:

I created a shortcut on the desktop and pointed Irfanview to that, no idea if it would find your hidden file though, ggod luck

Hi Dave!

Thanks for that tip! That was what I tried first, but IrfanView couldn't find the shortcut on the desktop.

[David in Яuislip]

Sorry it didn't work but I know very little about these hidden installations, mine was from Serif direct so it's a regular setup thankfully. Can you not get a link/shortcut using Lem3's idea?

[iconoclast]

1 hour ago, Lem3 said:

I would think this should work for any running program:

Start Affinity Photo, then open Task Manager.
Click the ">" next to "Affinity Photo (2)"
Right click on sub-item "Affinity Photo"
Click on either context menu item "Open File Location" or "Properties"

Hi Lem3!

Very good tip, thanks for this! In fact I found the folder with the EXE-file this way without problems. And that is a big progress. Unfortunately I got the message "Access denied" as I tried to link it to IrfanView. I have to change some security settings as it seems. I'm not sure if I really should risk that. Of course, I would like to open images in Photo directly from IrfanView, but it's not worth to produce problems with my system for it. I realize again that it was a mistake to purchase Photo from the Microsoft Store.