Questions tagged [windows-photo-viewer]
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How to make Windows 10 photos program not zoom to fit before viewing at actual size?
When browsing through screenshots of games, that are smaller than the screen size, using the Win 10 photos program, it will show an "always zoom to fit" sized image, briefly, before showing ...
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windows image viewer always shows first picture in folder
I was used to viewing pictures in Windows viewer by using arrow buttons left and right (to open previous or next picture from the one currently showing).
From recently, it is not the case: no matte ...
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Windows 10 - Thumbnail of animated webp + ability to view in windows photo viewer?
I did many things to be able to see the thumbnails of webp files in windows explorer and that I could see them in windows photo viewer.
E.g. WebpCodecSetup installed, K-Lite codec pack full installed, ...
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Windows Photo Viewer darkening outside of images
I'm assuming there was a software update or something because Windows photo viewer has recently started darkening the outside of images. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off?
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Windows photos jamming print queue
Whenever any of our users prints an image from the windows 10 photo app or a pdf from chrome or edge it is causing the print spooler queue to jam. That print will stay in the queue till it's turn, ...
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Why does thumbnail from deleted photo still shows up in the Photos tile in Windows 10?
I deleted a photo on Windows 10 and emptied the trash.
Now, the photo still appears in the Microsoft Photos tile in the start menu. How can I remove it there? Is there a thumbnail trailing somewhere?
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can't crop image with built in Windows 10 photos app without getting an "Oops! We couldn't save that one."
I open a photo in the Windows 10 Photos app and then select the Edit option:
I then crop the image but when I try to save the cropped image I get the following error:
The error would make sense if ...
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Photo app does not display photos
Recently (~2 weeks), the Windows Photo app does often (~40%) not display the picture that I double clicked. The app is just empty:
The cursor is a blue "waiting" circle.
In that state, the ...
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Windows Photo program does not recognise media in Windows Pictures directory symbolic hard link
Windows Photo program does not recognise media in Windows Pictures directory after the directory has symbolic hard link to another folder. How can that be fixed?
I had symbolically linked (/J) the ...
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Windows Photos App "Save" instead of "Save a Copy" as the default
Every time I wish to Save a photo, instead of creating a new file for the edits just made, I have to click on the arrow which gives the "Save" option instead of the "Save a copy" ...
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Change background colour of Windows 10's Photos
When viewing an image in Windows 7's Photo Viewer, it would have a coloured background that made it clear where the image started and ended. By comparison, in Windows 10, the background is always ...
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Monitor Color Inconsistency with Various Programs on "Calibrated" Screen
First of all, I am using the free program Quick Gamma, but I figure it's better than nothing and it will have to do until I can afford something more professional.
I'm noticing that I'm not getting ...
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Fully remove Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10
How to fully uninstall Windows Photo Viewer from Windows 10? It makes me mad.
I deleted directory Windows Photo Viewer both from C:\Program Files (x86) and C:\Program Files but it keeps opening my ...
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Microsoft Photos App keeps crashing
Recently, I noticed the Windows 10 default photo app "Photos" crashes. It doesnt matter if I use it to open an image, or if just try to open it by double clicking the app. I finally got annoyed ...
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Windows photo viewer can't run because not enough memory?
Just got a weird error. I was sent an image on email, opened the email in Outlook (Office 365 version) and double clicked image to open. I got this error:
"Windows Photo Viewer can't display ...
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Which metadata fields Windows 10 Photo App uses while importing?
My GoPro had a depleted battery, and its date was reset. I edited the exif "Creation Date" field. Using the file explorer properties dialog I can see that it was correctly edited, But when I try to ...
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Windows PhotoAppplication loads very slowly
My Windows PHOTO application takes forever to load and closes unexpectedly.
Is there any other easier fix and deleting and reinstalling?
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Running Windows Photo Viewer from shortcut for a particular directory?
I looked at the Command Line column in the Task Manager, and it's C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe /Processid: {76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503} so if I want to open that from a shortcut for a ...
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Is it possible to restart the facial recognition within the Windows Photos app?
I like the facial recognition feature introduced into the Photos app in Windows 10; however, something is causing it to fail occasionally, and on restarting the app, indexing does not continue.
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Are the files opened with the photos application of Windows 10 temporary stored anywhere?
I'm saving some designs in a virtual drive with an encryption software. When the virtual drive is off, sometimes the photos can still be opened by clicking them in recent files and they are opened in ...
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Where are Windows photo albums actually saved
The Windows 10 photo app allows you to save pictures to "Creations" such as photo albums. Where are these albums located in Explorer?
The implication from what I've read is that they are somewhere ...
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Windows Photo Viewer can't navigate between images when viewed at actual size
I have a folder of images that I want to be able to navigate through in Windows Photo Viewer. These images are large and don't fully fit on my screen at actual size.
If I open any image in the folder,...
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View photos in Windows 10 withtout border [duplicate]
I would like to view photos in Windows 10. Unfortunately, when I double click on a photo it is displayed in a window of the Photos app with a black border. However, I don't want to waste space for a ...
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How to fix navigation interference with image viewing in Windows 10 Photos?
Navigation in the Photos App on Windows 10 covers the bottom of the image and is rather persistent in staying there, preventing you from seeing the full image content.
Additionally, there's a top-bar ...
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Remove the background color in Windows Photo Viewer for Win7 aero glass theme
I use Black Glass Enhanced (curiouso9.deviantart.com/art/Black-Glass-Enhanced-v0-5-156752713) with my black Windows 7 theme. Unfortunately, Windows Photo Viewer does not have any transparency like all ...
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How can I refresh a picture on Windows photo viewer?
I have opened a picture with Windows photo viewer. Another program changed it. How can I refresh the picture on Windows photo viewer?
I don't see any button for it. I went through the menu and ...
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Why does my screenshot look terrible when previewed in Windows Photo Viewer?
I recently came across an issue that turned out to be much simpler than it was, and I thought I'd document it here. Maybe everyone but me is aware of how Photo Viewer works, but just in case, I ...
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I want to use Task Scheduler to run a .jpg file. Under 'Action', I have to input the path of Windows Photo Viewer. What is the path?
I want to use Task Scheduler to run a .jpg file. Under the 'Action' tab, I have to input the path of Windows Photo Viewer. Can anyone tell me what the path is?
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How to go to the next/previous picture using the Windows 10 default photo viewer?
The old Windows photo viewer showed some arrows that allowed you to go back and forth through the images in a given directory.
The default Windows 10 photo viewer also shows arrows that serve the ...
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Windows Photo Viewer Disappeared from my applications
Windows Photo Viewer disappeared from my applications list, or from the Open With menu. All along it was there, even though it was not my default photo viewer for any format. I just noticed yesterday ...
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How can I make Windows Photo Viewer (8) move to the next subfolder when at the end of one like Photos (10)?
Something like this:
Main Folder
Subfolder 1
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Subfolder 2
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
In the Windows 8 Photo Viewer (The ...
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How can I close all Windows photo viewer windows in Microsoft Windows 7 at once?
I wonder how I can close all Windows photo viewer windows in Microsoft Windows 7 at once.
I typically use taskkill, e.g. taskkill /f /im mspaint.exe or taskkill /f /im putty.exe, however my ...
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Windows 7 slow at opening media files
A few days ago I encountered a strange problem that since then consistently persists, I noticed that Windows 7 all of a sudden became exceptionally slow at opening video files. I haven't got the ...
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Windows Photo Viewer Some Picture Printing Result Invert Colour
I have a quite interesting problem of Windows 7 photo viewer. I noticed the program printing some of images in inverted state. Do not know the cause, I tried print it using other program without ...
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Windows 10 Photo View Next button doesn't work
So when viewing a folder with pictures on your computer in Windows, you could always right click a picture file and then click Preview. This opens it in the Windows Photo Viewer. You could then ...
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How to disable blur in Windows 10's Photo Viewer when zooming (or alternative programs)?
I work on pixel art stuff so this always bothers me. Windows 10's default imageviewer does this to the images:
and while it's great for some types of images it doesn't work with what I usually have ...
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Windows photo viewer uses a vary large amount of disk space when open
Recently, when opening a picture on my desktop with Windows Photo Viewer, it would eat up all the free disk space (~8 GB) on my Windows drive (C:) in a matter of seconds. As soon as I closed the ...
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Turn OFF High DPI Scaling on a DLL file - Windows 10
High DPI scaling can be a pain sometimes, normally you just go to the EXE and turn it off manually. But how can you turn it off for a DLL file?
My problem is that I want to to turn it off for Windows ...
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How to change which file types Windows Photo Viewer show when navigating to Previous or Next
If you open a photo in Windows Photo Viewer and press the right arrow, it will move to the next photo in the folder. However, it will skip any non-photo file types (e.g. txt, doc, xls). It will ...
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How to bring back Photo Viewer in Windows 10?
In Windows 10, when opening images, it gives me the option to open in the Photos metro app, Paint, or GIMP.
I'd like it to open in Photo Viewer, but when I directed "Open with" to PhotoViewer.dll in "...
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Context > preview to display animation, of animated gifs? [duplicate]
I'm using preview in my context menu which opens the default image viewer, Windows Photo Viewer.
Actual behavior
When opened, an animated gif file is opened, but the animation is not played--it's ...
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Opening images in Win 7 not working anymore - " COM surrogate has stopped working " error
I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, with all updates installed. Suddenly, from some moment on today I can no longer open images with Windows Photo Viewer. I get " COM surrogate has stopped working " ...
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How is it that some software knows the correct orientation of an image and other software does not?
I download some photos off Google drive and when I open them in Windows Photo Viewer some are incorrectly oriented. I opened them in Photoshop with the intent to rotate them but Photoshop already ...
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Open new photo in already open Windows Photo Viewer
I would like to find a way to open a specific, random, new image in an already open Windows Photo Viewer window (not to pop a new one with the new picture).
The image files might be in the same ...
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How to change the background color in Windows Photo Viewer
When you open a picture file in Windows Photo Viewer the default background color is white. This is just fine in most use cases. But you might find yourself in a situation where your picture is very ...
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How to run Windows Photo Viewer in Safe Mode?
How can I get Windows Photo Viewer to run in Safe Mode? I'm running Microsoft Windows 7.
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What causes the Windows 7 Photo Viewer menu bar to steal the arrow key focus?
As I am hitting the left or right arrow keys to cycle through images using Windows Photo Viewer, the menu bar will inevitably end up stealing the focus from the viewer controls at the bottom. When it ...
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Alternatives to Windows 7 image viewer without pixellated zoom [closed]
Default Image Viewer for Windows 7 doesn't do any smoothing when the image is zoomed. I hear that's the case with Windows 8's image viewer too. In Windows XP there was a different image viewer which ...
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Windows Photo Viewer terminating with "COM Surrogate" error
I have a problem that is very similar to this one, but unlike it, the problem is not on a Tablet PC, and consequently not when turning to Portrait Mode. It also does not specify an error in the "d3d9....
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Outlook 2010 error "There was a prob lem starting PhotoViewer.DLL"
I have Outlook 2010 installed on this brand new Windows 7 desktop. When we get an email with an attachment and double-click it, we get an error: "There was a problem starting PhotoViewer.DLL" blah-...
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