Jpegs Picture Viewer vs. Preview

Was recently looking through my wifes imac G3 running OSX (yes the first one) and I wanted to check out some photos she had on there but they insist on opening up with Picture Viewer in Classic and honestly it's just too painful to wait for Classic to open up. Is there a way I can make Preview the default application for all jpegs without having to Get Info for every single photo and changing the application that way?
Basically can I make a system wide command to open jpegs in 10 as opposed to 9?
Thanks

Hi, zuma. I'm not familiar with the very early versions of OS X. When you open the Get Info window for a JPEG file and select the application you want to open it, is there a "Change All" button there that you can click to make the chosen application the default for all files of that type? If not, that feature must not have appeared until a later OS X version.
You can always open photos in Preview by dragging them onto Preview's icon in the Dock — or onto a Preview alias on the desktop, if that's more convenient.
You could also consider updating the installed version of QuickTime on your wife's iMac to an OS X-native version. Double-clicking the photos would then still open them in PictureViewer, but at least it wouldn't invoke Classic.

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