[Ham-Computers] TIF Drawings Background Colour

[Robert Downs]

Yesterday afternoon I suffered through my first (of what I am told I can
expect semi-annually) major Windows 10 updates.  After it finally finished,
I looked around the system to see whether anything had changed or not.  

 

The first thing that I found was that plugging in a USD thumb drive no
longer causes a sound to be made if the plug in is successful.  Does anyone
know where to fix this?

 

The second was that when I opened a TIF file (which account for about 1/10
of our total family annual income, so no laughing matter), I discovered that
the function had been hijacked by something called Windows Photo Viewer.
The second thing that I immediately noticed was that a black and white
drawing is displayed with a light tan or khaki instead of white background.
At the time, I was unable to find where to change the default program back
to Imaging Preview so I finally uninstalled Imaging and tried to reinstall
it.  And discovered that the installer would no longer auto-run.  Somehow, I
figured out a way around that and ran the install.  Unlike when I first
installed it about two months ago, I fortunately noticed that this time it
was going to install into Program Files instead of Program Files (x86), and
fixed that.  The rest of the install went smoothly, and when I then opened
File Explorer and double-clicked on a random .TIF, it was opened by Imaging
Preview as I had hoped.  However, the background is still tan instead of
white.

 

When I open one of the TIF files with IrfanView, the background is white as
it should be.  And programs for opening other type files, like where I'm
writing this, still have a white background.  I called the shop where I
bought this new computer and he didn't have a clue.  Worse, I emailed him a
TIF file to test with and when he opened it with Windows Photo Viewer, the
background on his machine is white.

 

Has anyone ever encountered this problem?  And figured out how to fix it?

 

The infamous update also did other things, like deleting entirely Homegroup.
Which fortunately I wasn't using.

 

Robert Downs