Can a default graphics viewer be defined?

using an older PowerMac

[Reno]

Is there a way on an older PowerMac 7100/66 running OS 8.5 to define what the default graphics viewer will be?

Right now, if I download a graphic - let's say a jpg - save it to the desktop, and double click, it wants to open the graphic in Photoshop. As you longtime Macheads know, opening PS on an older Mac can be excruciatingly slow (when all I want to do is just view the graphic!).

So I found a freeware graphics viewer called Jade that opens real fast, and I'd like to define *that* as the default viewer. If I want Photoshop, I would have to specifically open it. Otherwise, Jade would always open all my graphics by default.

Is there any way to do that?

[mivox]

Look in the "File Exchange" control panel... It gives you a list of "PC" file extensions and the programs they're mapped to. Just find the ".jpg" listing, highlight it, and click the edit button...

(That's the way it works in OS 9, but I don't think they changed that function much from OS 8.5. If it doesn't work, I'll check my desktop machine -- running 8.6 -- when I get home. :) )

[Reno]

Thanks very much mivox - your instructions were perfect. I'd not gotten into that control panel, so I appreciate knowing that I can make the changes so easily...

[mivox]

:) Great! I love that control panel... everytime I find a new favorite program, I go on a rampage changing all the file/program associations.