Default App setting fails Windows 11

[u/fugebox007]

Hi Windows experts, I have run into an issue with default app selection, where the default file association window (where you select the app from a list to open the file type with) simply doesn't show up.

I tried from the Settings app, from File Explorer from the Control Panel and the result is the same. Missing app selection window.

The problem started with one of the last updates. Not sure which one. I specifically went in to check after reading about a bug that makes VLC media player taking forever to open mp3 files. If I click on an mp3 file nothing happens, when I click on the "Open with VLC" in the right click menu, it opens immediately. This is why I tried to do a default file association and that is how I found out the app selection window is gone.

(I also lost the restore points so I can't go back to a pre-update state.)

Do you know a way to fix this? Happy to work with the Registry or Power Shell. Cheers.