One of the most common annoyances of the new Windows 10, why not say so, is the Photos application, which is considerably slow when compared to the Windows Photo Viewer that has been sharing photos with us for so many years. Today we show you how to make sure that all our photos open with the Windows Photo Viewer And not with the Windows 10 Photos application, if you want of course.
As we have already said, by default in Windows 10 we have configured so that the Windows Photos application is the one that opens our photos, unfortunately it is not as optimized as it should or we would like, That is why for certain things any past time was better, especially for the Window Photo Viewer, extremely fast, simple and useful, and if something works, why change it?
Most of the time it will be very simple, and Windows 10 when we open a photo for the first time will ask us with what program or application we want to open that type of files, just select Windows Photo Viewer. However, if for any reason we did not select it at the time or now we have changed our mind regarding the Photos application, we simply have to follow the following steps described in the photo above.
Reset Windows 10 Photo Viewer
- Press the Windows key or go to the Cortana text box
- We write "default applications"
- In the suggested applications, click on «default app settings »
- We enter the configuration and navigate to the «Photographs» section
- We replace the application Photos by the Windows Photo Viewer that will appear in the same list
How you have been able to observe returning to the classic viewer is extremely simple, we just have to follow these steps and if you have a problem, do not hesitate to consult it in the comments. Tell us, do you stay with the vWindows 10 photo viewer Or do you prefer the Microsoft operating system image viewer?
Alternatives to Windows 10 Photo Viewer
However, we are in the era of customization, and the way we view photos on our PC could not be less, so we want to bring you a handful of alternatives to the Windows Photo Viewer, so that we can try other ways to get it performance and optimizing the way we view our photos on our Windows 10 PC, of course. So we go there with some little alternatives that you cannot miss.
ImageGlass
This first program offers us a fairly simple and intuitive user interface, for those who do not want more than to click on the photos and move on is not bad at all. Thanks to this minimalist interface, it runs quickly, much faster than the usual Windows 10 Photo Viewer. That is why for those who love performance and simplicity it is very present.
Download - ImageGlass
XnShell
The well-known XnView proprietary software, widely used by users who are dedicated to photo editing in professional mode. This photo viewer allows us to solve small common defects in many photos, so it becomes in a way a simple editor. On the other hand, its wide compatibility with different image formats has also made it very famous.
Download - XnShell
IrfanView
Something quite similar to what we previously told you with ImageGlass, its reason for being is speed and speed of use. Its user interface is perhaps too simplistic and does not offer much information, but it has the four basic options that every user knows how to use, without bragging but for all audiences.
Download - IrfanView
viewnoir
Minimalism with a user interface that will quickly remind us of the old Mac OS X or the current Linux. Once again we have simple alternatives, which will also allow us to visualize animated GIFs, among other things, so fashionable today.
Download - viewnoier
Do you know any Windows 10 photo viewer that serves as an alternative to the official Microsoft system? Tell us which one do you use.
Thank you!
Well, in my Windows 10 the option "Windows Photos Viewer" does not appear, only "Photos" appears (which is the nefarious new idea of Microsoft) and the option of the store.
The same thing happens to me as gueben, this option does not appear and that windows photo application is garbage:
In clean installations this option cannot be activated.
I do get the option "Windows Photo Viewer", but it only lets me link the TIF file format. Is that Microsoft always has to do one of its own (see win 8 start button). With how well the Windows viewer used to be.
The Windows Photo Viewer does not appear to me. I've looked for it everywhere. And in what you have explained about how to change the default application, Photographs do not appear in the configuration list either
The same thing happens to me: the Windows Photo Viewer option does not appear. 🙁
Well, the opposite happens to me. I have the computer with 3 users and in one of them the windows 10 "photos" has disappeared, and also from the list of startup apps, instead the files that were previously opened with "photos" have been associated with twinui, and of course he can't open them or find them. The user says that she has not modified anything, the antivirus does not find anything (kasper) and I do not know where to look to update the apps, (which appear to the rest of the users normally) for this reason I have ruled out downloading it from the store, already I don't like to put duplicate apps, so they don't give problems. I have been tempted to restore to a previous point, but the rest of the users do not give any problem. So if anyone knows anything, thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Hello, thank you very much, you helped me a lot and without so much pod
Many thanks. It served me too much 🙂
thank you very much, you are a crack
Thank you!!!
Thank you, a billion thanks.
In Windows 10 it stopped working correctly, it only lets you see one photo and does not let you go to the next one. you have to go in and out to see the others …… nefarious.
I have an application that has the option to open client documents. It works well in Windows 7 but when changing to Windows 10 what to do to follow the same functionality, you have to adapt libraries or preferably with the native Windows 10 viewer.
How to recover… ??? »» Windows photo viewer »because windows 10 are very bad» »»
The viewer does not appear to me and there is no possible solution by following these steps.
I have found the way elsewhere and it is by modifying the registry. I leave you link
https://answers.microsoft.com/es-es/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/usa-el-visualizador-de-fotos-de-windows-en-windows/8cec8dda-eab3-459b-a85a-79233a6ddf74
I do leave it to me, but when I open the photos they come out very pale and fluorescent, the red looks pink, does anyone know a solution? Thank you