The default image viewer on Windows 10 devices is the Photos application. Yup, doesn’t work after October 2018. You can still access Windows Photo Viewer if you right click and choose it to open, you can even check ‘always open’ with this, but as soon as you close WPV and double click to open the same photo even it’ll open with the Win 10 Photo app again. No way to set it as default either in settings.
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This problem may be caused due to one of the following reasons: There is only one file in that folder. If there are more than one image file in that folder, the image files may have the “hidden” attribute set. Windows Photo Viewer file association settings are incorrect (most likely cause).
This is frustrating because WPV is blatantly superior for basic PNG, BMP, JPEG viewing etc. For a start when I want to zoom in Win 10 Photos it is cumbersome and often fails to work, or works extremely slowly. This is on a machine with an 8th gen Intel quad core, 8GB RAM and a higher end SSD storing the photo data! But in the old WPV you scroll in and instantly it zooms. Somehow Microsoft have replaced a fast nippy intuitive photo viewer of old with a crappy, slow, memory hogging one with trash controls.
Thanks geniuses!. Worked to satisfaction on a Windows 10 version 1909 system I’m currently servicing, but there is a possibility this was an upgraded setup.To Todd above, here’s a quick suggestion though you may already be doing this. After extracting the Registry file and merging it, right click on any image file you’re looking to make the change on, then left click ‘Open with’. When the ‘How do you want to open this file?’ dialog box opens, click on ‘More apps’ but make sure to move your mouse pointer to the right side of that box so it shows its scroll bar. There you can scroll down to find additional applications to use, hopefully to include Windows Photo Viewer.
Just a thought.
Hi,I have a weird problem:Windows 10 TH2Domain joined PC's. Using mapped network drive.User opens 'File Explorer' and browses one folder in mapped network drive which contains like about 100 pictures (.jpg for example). Picture files are named like DS00023.DS00099 and so on.(files are sorted by name).When user opens the first picture (DS00023) using the new 'modern' Photos App the user is not able to use arrow keys to go to the next picture inside this Photos App. Same behavour with the second.third picure.
Also, the slideshowis not working. Photos App just flickers the selected picture.BUT, if the user opens picture like DS00065.DS00099 suddenly the arrow keys started working to scroll trough the pictures and slideshow is working too. I don't figure out why the Photos App dislikes the first part of the folder. Like DS00024.DS00064but works fine with the second part (DS00065.DS00099)What could be wrong?rgds Sven.
Hi Sven,Thanks for your feedback.If available, please consider send feedbacks regarding the Photos app issue, using the Windows Feedback Tool.In addition, we may consider take use of Windows Photo Viewer instead.Instead, please take a try to exchange the last picture from the first part pictures to the second group, then click to check if it would make it work.Or consider move the first part pictures into One folder.RegardsPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected]. Check if this works:Sharma Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members readingthe thread.Using solution in this thread, activates the former 'Picture and fax viewer', wich is also good. At least is a workaround. But following tips in this thread, does not make my Photos App working as it should be.rgds Sven. Hi Sven,Thanks for your feedback.If available, please consider send feedbacks regarding the Photos app issue, using the Windows Feedback Tool.In addition, we may consider take use of Windows Photo Viewer instead.Instead, please take a try to exchange the last picture from the first part pictures to the second group, then click to check if it would make it work.Or consider move the first part pictures into One folder.RegardsPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.
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If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected] don't trust this feedback tool, I'v used this before and no 'feedback' at all:SI'v tried to exchange the last to the first. Basically, I renamed the last picture to 'A.jpg' wich places it first. When it was last, I was able to scroll backward, when it was fist I wasn't able to scroll at all.What You mean move to the One folder?rgds Sven. Hi Sven,Apologize for the late reply.I mean create a subfolder and put the pictures from DS00023 to DS00065 into it, then check to see if photo would open the rest of the pictutres.Feedback tool is a way to collect feedbacks. The effects of the feedback might not be so efficient, as the feedbacks need to be selected and confirmed, or fixed. Please be patience and submit it, so that the feedback team would be notified thatthere is a problem in this situation.RegardsPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected].
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Tried this subfolder thing. Problem goes even weirder. I'v moved files DS00023.DS00065 into subfolder. Those pictures in original location are 'unscrollabe' (sorry my english).Now I can scroll trough like DS00045.DS00065, but unable to scroll DS00023.DS00044. So, I still can not see any logic behind this. I moved those files back into original folder and again I'm unable to scroll between any of those.So basically it seems like the last part (about 1/3 of all content) of the folder is somehow working and the first part (about 2/3) is not working.rgds Sven.
To add more to this chaos, I experienced something else today. If I open photos from Microsoft's file explorer I can scroll through them with the arrow keys, but if I open a photo from an other file explorer (like Total Commander) the arrows don't work anymore,and I can't scroll through them from the Photos app. This is rather annoying, and one would think it is a basic feature for a photo viewer app to be able to scroll through photos in the same directory with the arrow keys or something like that.I know about the old photo viewer, and yes, that works fine, I just wanted to post this so maybe someone will see it and do something about it.
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