I am having an issue opening photos on my Windows 10 pc. I am getting an error message, how can I fix this?

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I am having an issue opening photos on my windows 10 pc. I am getting a message

When I attempt to open photos, I am getting an error message "this app can't open. contact your administrator about reloading or repairing it"

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Re: I am having an issue opening photos on my windows 10 pc. I am getting a message

When I attempt to open photos, I am getting an error message "this app can't open. contact your administrator about reloading or repairing it"

can you try using another program to open the photos? Right click the photo and select open with. Try a different option to see if other programs can open the photo.

if no program can pen then the photo might have an unusual extension or it could be corrupted