[Windows 10 Tip] Remove “Edit With Photos” Option from Image Context Menu

In past I have told you how to remove “Edit with Paint 3D” and “3D Print with 3D Builder” options from image context menu in Windows 10. When you right-click on an image file in Windows 10, you get these options in the right-click menu depending upon which Windows 10 version are you using in your machine.

[Windows 10 Tip] Remove “Edit with Paint 3D” Option from Image Context Menu

[Windows 10 Tip] Remove “3D Print with 3D Builder” Option from Image Context Menu

Recently an AskVG reader contacted me regarding another context menu option “Edit with Photos“. He wanted to get rid of this option from image context menu.

But when I tried to find the same option in my Windows 10 machine, I was not able to find it. The option was not appearing in the context menu for me.

When I checked all my Windows 10 machines, I was surprised to see that the option was displaying in only a few machines. After some research, finally I was able to find out the reason.

The “Edit with Photos” option was only showing in Windows 10 machines which were containing a clean installed fresh copy of Windows 10 OS. In other words, the machines which were not customized or tweaked after installing Windows 10, were showing the “Edit with Photos” option in image context menu and other machines which had been customized a lot, were not showing the option.

After some more research, I found the culprit. The “Edit with Photos” option only appears in context menu if and only if the “Photos” app is set to default as Photo Viewer in a Windows 10 machine. In some machines, I activated the classic “Windows Photo Viewer” program and set it as default photo viewer app, that’s why those machines were not showing “Edit with Photos” option in context menu. In some other machines, I removed all modern (UWP or Store) apps using PowerShell commands, that’s why those machines were also not showing “Edit with Photos” option.

So if you are getting “Edit with Photos” option in image context menu, it means the “Photos” app is set as default photo viewer in your Windows 10 computer and if you are not getting the option, that means the “Photos” app is not set as default photo viewer or has been removed from your Windows 10 device.

Now let’s come to the point! If you have “Edit with Photos” option in image context menu and want to disable the option, you just need to set a different program as default photo viewer in your computer and it’ll immediately remove the option from context menu. You won’t need to modify registry and apply registry tweaks to remove the option.

To set different program as default photo viewer app, you need to follow some simple steps which are given as following:

1. Open Start Menu and click on Settings option. It’ll open Settings app. Alternatively, you can direct open Settings app using WIN+I hotkey.

Now click on “Apps” icon and in left-side pane, click on “Default apps” tab.

PS: Alternatively, You can directly launch the “Default apps” page using “ms-settings:defaultapps” command in RUN dialog box as mentioned here.

2. Now in right-side pane, look for “Photo viewer” section. The “Photos” app would be set as default app. Click on the “Photos” app and select a different app from the list such as Paint, etc.

PS: I’ll advise you to activate Windows Photo Viewer program and set it as default photo viewer as it’s very fast and useful for viewing image files. To restore and activate Windows Photo Viewer program in Windows 10, you can check out following exclusive tutorial:

[Tip] Restoring “Windows Photo Viewer” as Default in Windows 10

That’s it. As soon as you set a different program as default photo viewer in Windows 10, the “Edit with Photos”option will disappear from the context menu.