It's easy to get the trusty old Windows Photo Viewer back -- simply open up Settings and go to System > Default apps. Under "Photo viewer" you should see your current default photo viewer (probably the new Photos app). Click this to see a list of options for a new default photo viewer. Assuming you upgraded to Windows 10 from a previous version of Windows, you should see Windows Photo Viewer as an option.
2. Double-click on your new REG file to merge it with your Windows Registry. You will need to click through the User Account Control and a few other windows to allow the file to make changes to the Registry.
I have a photo that shows mostly black colors. I edited it in PS, assigned the sRGB profile and saved it as JPG. It looks great within Lr, PS and through any browser but I tried 10 different apps for Windows 10 and the black are so black that there is barely any detail visible. Is there a color-managed photo viewer for Windows 10?
I test for color managed viewers by opening a file in Photoshop and converting it to have a version in each of sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto. Save each image. If you use a viewer to cycle through the three images they should look identical in a color managed program. But look decidedly different in a non-color managed viewer. (This smokes out the non-color managed slideshow mode in Windows Photo Viewer.)
With that if you want a color managed photo viewer, you'll need to look third party like Adobe Photoshop, LR, Bridge, ACDsee or any other photo editing program with the capability of being color managed. These (color managed photo viewers) are not included in Windows 10.
And if you edited your files in Photoshop and want to view them in a color managed environment, why not use Adobe Bridge? It actually is a very powerful "photo viewer"; as well as photo manager, and editor.
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after some google search i bump into -> -classic-windows-photo-viewer-in-server-2016/ which works well except group policy is on computer level and might not work for everyone and most importantly hinders further customization.
so after further google search and come across -> -rankin.com/articles/per-user-ftas-file-type-associations-in-windows-10-server-2012-r2-and-server-2016-the-final-word/ and followed the Citrix WEM section on how to setup New FTA, get ProgId, Target Application and Command.
In this topic we walk through the process of creating a new WinUI 3 project in Visual Studio; and then building a simple app to display photos. We'll use controls, layout panels, and data-binding. And we'll be writing both XAML markup (which is declarative) and your choice of either C# or C++ code (which are imperative, or procedural). Use the language picker above the topic title to choose C# or C++/WinRT.
The app that we'll be building carries image files around with it in the form of asset files; and those are the photos that it displays. In this section you'll add those assets to your project. But first you'll need to obtain a copy of the files.
The main window of any app represents the view that you see first when you run the app. In the app we'll be building, the main window's job is to load the photos from the Samples folder, and to display a tiled view of those images together with various info about them.
A model (in the sense of models, views, and view models) is a class that to some degree represents a real-world object or concept (such as a bank account). It's an abstraction of that real-world thing. In this section we'll be adding to our project a new class called ImageFileInfo. ImageFileInfo will be a model of an image file, such as a photo. This section will take us a step closer to being able to display photos in the app's user interface (UI).
We want the data template to display each photo's image, name, file type, dimensions, and rating. So we'll be adding, respectively, an Image control, some TextBlock controls, and a RatingControl control. We'll lay out the text inside StackPanel layout panels. The Image will, initially, display the project's sketch-like Microsoft Store logo as a placeholder.
The technique we'll use to display the photos in the Assets\Samples folder involves updating the GridView's items progressively. Specifically, that's the code in the ImageGridView_ContainerContentChanging and ShowImage methods in the code example below, including use of the ContainerContentChangingEventArgs.InRecycleQueue and ContainerContentChangingEventArgs.Phase properties. For more info, see ListView and GridView UI optimization. But in a nutshell, the GridView will let us know (by way of an event) when one of its item containers is ready to display its item. And then we'll keep track of which phase of its update lifecycle the item container is in so that we can determine when it's ready to display photo data.
If you build and run the app now, instead of placeholders you'll see real photos, and real text (and other data). Visually and functionally, this simple little app is now complete. But as a coda, let's do one last little bit of data binding.
In this tutorial we walked through the process of using Visual Studio to build a simple WinUI 3 app that displays photos. Hopefully this tutorial has given you experience working in a WinUI 3 app with controls, layout panels, data-binding, and GridView UI optimization.
This photo viewer is already my default tool for viewing images. After using it for a certain period, I found it really powerful. It has all the necessary functions, such as image format converting, taking screenshots and many more. So convenient!
I am a photography lover. I have taken and saved tons of images on my computer. Apowersoft Photo Viewer supports various formats of different cameras and also allows me to share photos to SNS with just one click.
It's been a while since I've used it (and I don't have a Windows box handy to test on) but I remember using an image viewer called JPEGView. From memory, I seem to recall it supporting the feature you need most: refreshing the display when the source file changes. In any event it is one of the few open-source image viewers for Windows that I found to holds its own.
Okular is a document viewer that opens pdf, djvu, jpeg, png files, perhaps even more. It's a KDE app, since KDE is cross-platform, you may give it a try.Expect a big download though. On the other hand if you plan to use it on Linux, it should be pretty easy to get it up and running.
I know this is an old question but I did not want to install another image viewer. However, a web browser works just fine depending on what you need. You can open the image directly in it and then either
As for the program's features, all options in it work fine. It is a little sad we have to resort to such tricks for accessing the legacy program. Microsoft should make it easier for users to choose the image viewer of their choice, what do you think about this?
Many, many, many thanks for this wonderful fix! I have been tearing my hair out every time I need to deal with photos since I got this new PC with Windows 11. I followed the instructions on another website that was supposed to get the WPV functioning again, but it did not work. Your downloaded registry files and instructions did the trick. I am thrilled!
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