I have created the Registry file for your convenience but you can head over to the forum to create it yourself if you prefer it.ĭownload the following Registry file to your system: The user Edwin over on Ten Forums published the code for the Registry that you need to add. If you don't see the program listed there, you need to make a couple of changes to the Windows Registry to bring it back. If you see it there, Windows Photo Viewer is installed and ready for use.
This increases to a lot more when you don't open the image directly in Photos but go to the visual listing of all available photos instead. If you use both tools to display the same image, Photos uses about three times as much RAM as Windows Photo Viewer. Why you would want to use Windows Photo Viewer and not Photos? Easy: Photos uses a multiple of the memory that Windows Photo Viewer required to display images. Microsoft ships Windows Photo Viewer will clean installations of Windows as well but it is hidden and cannot be reactivated this easily. Windows Photo Viewer is available as an option if the device was upgraded from an earlier version of Windows, e.g. Windows Photo Viewer is still available on Windows 10 devices but the program's accessibility depends on whether Windows 10 was clean-installed. reg file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.Windows 10 users who worked on devices running previous versions of Windows or are still working on those devices may have used Windows Photo Viewer in the past to view images on these devices. In case the above link ever goes down, you just save/run the following in a. This is the old app, which has been replaced by the (significantly inferior) "Photos" app.
Slightly different than what's asked, but what worked for me was to restore the Windows Photo Viewer app.
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