How to change default Windows editor to GIMP?

[oatmeal769]

I like to view pix in the standard windows viewer.  I only use GIMP to edit.
In Windows 10, you could use a simple registry hack to make Gimp the default editor in right-click/context menus instead of Windows Paint.

This was the Registry location to change the default in Windows 10:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

Unfortunately, this key doesn't exist in Windows 11.
Does anyone know how to set Gimp as the default editor in the right-click/context menus instead of whatever Win11 makes us use?

TIA!
(P.S., This is NOT the same as simply making Gimp the default photo handler.)

[rich2005]

is this any help ? https://www.elevenforum.com/t/a-quick-tu...iles.4461/

[oatmeal769]

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rich2005is this any help ? https://www.elevenforum.com/t/a-quick-tu...iles.4461/
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Appreciate the reply, but no.  
It is essentially saying to do the same thing.  The problem is that:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations

is missing in Windows 11 - or at least the current build, as I just reloaded Windows 11 onto my PC this week.

EDIT:
Doh!  I  have to be sure and navigate PAST the System.xxx entry to SystemFileAssociations, further down.  (Notice the DOT.  I did not...)
Still, entering the new value doesn't seem to work, with or without quotes

EDIT x2  Thinking along these lines, I looked for a tutorial using Photoshop, and found this: 
https://medium.com/@amrut08/how-to-add-e...cd21867253

It works fine.