If you'd like to enable Windows Photo Viewer on Windows 10 and are struggling to get it done, read this article, as it can help you in getting back your photo viewer on your Windows 10 system with simple and effective solutions.
Windows 10’s new Photos app has a lot of new features as an image editing tool. Well, if you don’t want to pay for costly image editings tools such as Photoshop or Lightroom, this little tool can assist you – up to an extent.
But many of the habitual Windows users are against one action from Microsoft – that replaced Windows Photo Viewer as the default application to open images. It’s the new Photos app that replaced Windows Photo Viewer. And unfortunately, there are no easy ways to roll back this action. But, you can do it, if you’re willing to take some risk.
If you’ve upgraded from any of the previous Windows versions to Windows 10, things won’t be a disfavor to you. Just search for Windows 10 Settings. Once you have entered the settings menu, choose the System option. There you can find the Default Apps tab. From here, it’s possible to change the default Photo Viewer from Photos to Windows Photo Viewer.
Change to Windows Photo Viewer and exit menu. That’s it, now all the image files will be opened with Windows Photo Viewer by default.
If your situation is like this, you need to do some registry tweaks to get Windows Photo Viewer on your PC. Here’s how to do that.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.jpg]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.jpeg]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.gif]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.png]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.bmp]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.tiff]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
; Change Extension's File Type
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.ico]
@="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff"
Another way to use Windows Photo Viewer to open your images is by adding it to the 'Open with' options.