Programming

April 21, 2017

Enabling Windows Photo Viewer as Default on Windows 10

Usually you could use Windows Photo Viewer to view your image files in a variety of ways. You can also print, order prints, attach pictures to an e‑mail message, burn, or open photos in another app on your PC.

Windows 10 uses the Photos app as the default app to open image files with instead now. By default, Windows Photo Viewer is no longer listed in Open with, and only has .tiff files associated with it in Default Programs.

This tutorial will show you how to restore Windows Photo Viewer to be able to select to open image files in Default apps, Default Programs, and Open with for only your account or all users in Windows 10.

Step 1.  Download the file to your computer below and extract the contents of the .ZIP file  You will now have a registry file.

Step 2.  Double Click and Run the “Enable Photo Viewer Windows 10.reg

Step 3.  Right Click on any image file and Choose “Open With“, Windows Photo Viewer will now be in the available list of options again.

Please note that you will have to do this for all image extensions such as (.png, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .tif, etc).

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January 5, 2017

Downloading Full archive.org Directories

I recently needed a way to download full directories from Archive.org.  Here was the easiest solution I found.

You first need the following files installed on your computer assuming your using a Windows based machine.

https://rubyinstaller.org/  –  Ruby Installer for Windows

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader  – Wayback machine downloader by hartator

Once you have installed those files start command prompt with Ruby:

Inside of the Ruby Command Prompt insert the following code:

 gem install wayback_machine_downloader 

The wayback plugin should now be installed.

Since I wanted to download files no later than 2008 of December and download 40 items at once I used the following code:

 wayback_machine_downloader http://aimthings.com/ --to 200812 --concurrency 40 

Once the download is complete you will be able to find your outputted files by navigating to your user Library on Windows and they will be under the folder “websites“.

The following code will download all Archive.org dates with 20 downloads at a time.

 wayback_machine_downloader http://aimawaymessages.com --concurrency 20 

Please refer to https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader for additional usage options.

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