You can get the old Photo Viewer back if you want it.
I enabled it because I prefer it.
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See this link ---
https://winaero.com/blog/how-get-windows-photo-viewer-working-in-windows-10/
Why is Windows 10 default image viewer extremely slow?
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Hi there
I use Windows 10 Home on a 64 bit, 8GB RAM Samsung laptop. It was upgraded from Windows 8.1 and basically functions well. Since Samsung stopped making notebooks around the time Windows 10 was coming out, there have been no corresponding Windows 10 compatible software from them for this model. However, this has never been a problem as Windows 10 brought along all the necessary drivers and I did not install any Samsung software except for one settings program, which has an integrated battery life extender, which I need.
One thing that I have noticed and that has probably gotten worse is if you use the default Windows 10 picture viewer to open any image, it takes extremely long to load it after the black interface opens. I have for example just tried to open a 1000 x 2000 jpg image and as it took I guess well over a minute, I just closed it and opened it with IrfanView instead, which just took seconds. Other programs like Photofiltre are equally fast.
I think I ever read in some forum months back how to speed it up, but do not remember the steps,, but in any case I think it made no big difference.
Sometime ago I tried to set Irfanview to be the default viewer for images, including jpg & png which I remember worked for that session. Later, not sure it was that day, I noted it had somehow been changed back to Windows default, though I did not follow this up again until today, as I normally open images directly in one of the different image editors I want to use anytime.
I have just set it again to IrfanView but cannot immediately test if it remains so after a reboot, since I'm currently making a system image backup which will take several hours.
So my question:
- What causes the default Windows 10 image viewer to be extremely slow at opening images?
- Just in case Windows resets the image viewer to Windows default, how can this be stopped so the selected one remains?
My system and software are kept constantly up-to-date and has the most currently available updates for Windows, drivers and other software.
The system runs well and for some unconnected reason, recently run Scannow & DISM restorehealth and all is OK.
Thank you in advance
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I believe you are talking about Photos app of Windows. For the first time, somebody has reported that Photos app is slow (at least I am coming to know of this for the first time).
You can try following to correct if something is wrong with Photos app.
- Run Windows Store Apps Troubleshooter
Type troubleshoot in Windows Start Search box > Click Troubleshoot > Scroll down to bottom and click Windows Store Apps > Click Run the Troubleshooter and follow on-screen directions.
- Reset Photos App
Windows+X > Settings > Apps > Apps & Features > Locate Photos by Scrolling Down > Click Advanced Options > Click Reset
Go to Microsoft Store > Click 3 horizontal dots on top right > Downloads and Updates > Check if there is any update for this app > If yes, update it.
- If Reset doesn't work, then you should uninstall using Powershell and reinstall the Photos App
Windows+X > Click Windows Powershell (Admin) > Copy the below command and right click in Powershell to paste it
get-appxpackage Microsoft.Windows.Photos | remove-appxpackage
Now, you need to reinstall it
Use below Powershell command to install
Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Windows.Photos | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”
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Anonymous
2019-08-09T15:02:46+00:00 I have always had both Photos and Windows Photo Viewer installed. I switched over to the legacy Windows Photo Viewer. Now large images open quickly and do not cause large CPU and memory usage.
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Anonymous
2019-08-08T23:48:10+00:00 After reinstalling
Now, you need to reinstall it
Use below Powershell command to install
Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Windows.Photos | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”
You need to update the registry. Then the photo viewer works.
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/16/how-to-restore-the-windows-photo-viewer-on-windows-10/
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Anonymous
2019-08-05T16:28:53+00:00 With the Photos app, every time I load a 8700 x 4500 png file (24MB), the app is using 25% CPU, 25% GPU and 1.2GB memory.
I have waited several minutes, but the resource usage continues indefinitely. Zooming/panning is very slow.
If I open the same 8700 x 4500 png image with the Windows Photo Viewer, I only get a small momentary spike in CPU, GPU, and the memory usage is about 36MB (for a 24MB image). Zooming/panning is instantaneous.
Back to the Photos app:
Loading a larger 8700 x 8700 png image into Photos. I only get a momentary spike in CPU, GPU for several seconds, and the memory usage is about 200MB (for a 50MB image). Zooming/panning is initially slow, then becomes instantaneous after 10 - 30 seconds.
I have tried REPAIR, RESET, but that did not fix the problem.
The Photos version is: 2019.19051.16210.0
My Windows 10 video card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M.