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<p>How are you trying to open it? Are you double-clicking on a file in your downloads folder or something?</p><p><br></p><p>What registry change did you make?</p>
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<p id="isPasted">I'm having an issue opening Visio files on my Windows 11 devices. I don't have Visio installed, however, I have installed the Visio Viewer and it hasn't made a difference. I made an amendment to the registry based on an article I read, and this didn't work either. So what happens now is when I try to open a Visio file, it opens Microsoft Edge and it attempts to download the Visio file again?</p><p><br></p><p>Has anyone else had this and if so how did you fix it?</p>
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I'm having an issue opening Visio files on my Windows 11 devices. I don't have Visio installed, however, I have installed the Visio Viewer and it hasn't made a difference. I made an amendment to the registry based on an article I read, and this didn't work either. So what happens now is when I try to open a Visio file, it opens Microsoft Edge and it attempts to download the Visio file again?
Has anyone else had this and if so how did you fix it?


How are you trying to open it? Are you double-clicking on a file in your downloads folder or something?
What registry change did you make?

Issue opening Visio Files on Windows 11


I&amp;#39;m having an issue opening Visio files on my Windows 11 devices. I don&amp;#39;t have Visio installed, however, I have installed the Visio Viewer and it hasn&amp;#39;t made a difference. I made an amendment to the registry based on an article I read, and this didn&amp;#39;t work either. So what happens now is when I try to open a Visio file, it opens Microsoft Edge and it attempts to download the Visio file again?
Has anyone else had this and if so how did you fix it?

Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application that is part of the Microsoft Office family that allows the user to create diagrams for organizational and planning purposes. The Premium edition has additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts, as well as capabilities intended to make it easy for users to connect their diagrams to data sources and to display their data graphically, as well as intelligent rules, validation, subprocess (diagram breakdown). one-step connectivity with Excel data, information rights management (IRM) protection for Visio files, modernized shapes for office layout, detailed shapes for site and floor plans, modern shapes for home plans, and IEEE compliant shapes for electrical diagrams.

Microsoft Visio

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Windows 11 is a major version of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft that was announced on June 24, 2021, and is the successor to Windows 10, which was released in 2015. 

Windows 11 was released to the public on October 5, 2021, as a free upgrade via Windows Update and Windows 11 Installation Assistant on eligible devices running Windows 10.

Windows 11 features major changes to the Windows shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on the taskbar, the ability to create tiled sets of windows that can be minimized and restored from the taskbar as a group, Microsoft Teams being integrated into the taskbar, and new gaming technologies inherited from Xbox Series X and Series S such as Auto HDR and DirectStorage on compatible hardware. Internet Explorer (IE) has been replaced by the Blink engine-based Microsoft Edge, while IE's core is retained for Edge's IE mode, and Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows shell. Microsoft also announced plans to allow more flexibility in software that can be distributed via Microsoft Store.