Pictures clicked on Start Menu's Recent Items list opens in non default program

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Published on 2010-04-29T23:51:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 23:58 UTC
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I am using Picasa Photo Viewer and have associated all JPG and PNG files to open with it. However when I open an image from the Recent Items list in the Windows 7 Start Menu it opens with Windows Photo Viewer.

recent items with images

The context menu for such items reveals no actions that would make it go to Windows Photo Viewer, and the default (one in bold) opens with the Picasa viewer as you'd expect. It's just that the left click behaves differently for some reason.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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