Set Affinity Photo 2 to all Pictures in windows context menu as "Edit"

[Sokar]

Since version 2 now works less like a program and more like a Windows app, I had to fiddle around for a while until I could re-integrate Affinity into the context menu as a Windows editing program. (jpg, png,..)

In the registry editor in the key
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command
the value must be set to 
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe %1
must be set.

This is not the standard program to open images, for this the faster windows own programs are useful. What is meant here is explicitly the menu item "Edit" when you click on an image with the right mouse button.

(works with Windows 10 and 11)

[Adam Smith]

Thank you for working this out. I had obviously made the same change to my own system. Looking through the original location showed no sign of Photo2.exe anywhere!

The thought of having to go through the pop up menu of "which program do you wish to use to edit this image" every time left me with dread.

I am curious how you worked this out, though given that I cannot find the path given above through the file browser i suspect it is a little advanced.

[walt.farrell]

35 minutes ago, Adam Smith said:

The thought of having to go through the pop up menu of "which program do you wish to use to edit this image" every time left me with dread.

I'm not sure what you wanted to accomplish. If it's just wanting to always have Photo 2 open a JPG or TIF or PNG when you double-click it, that should be easy. Windows lets you specify the default app for handling any specific file type; no registry editing needed, no popup menus after the initial setup.