
Just a heads up, installing a third-party photo viewer app isn’t going to be enough. So, here goes my list for the best photo viewer for Windows 10. All in all, there are much better alternatives out there that just trump Microsoft Photos. Having said that, it does have few editing tools which work great but it’s seldom preferred anyway. Plus, it can only handle JPEGs and RAW images, but it has no clue what’s a PSD. You double click an image and it takes its own sweet time to load. jpg, jpeg, tiff, gif).The new Windows Photo viewer has its own woes.

Install a registry modification and manually assign each image type to open in the Windows Photo Viewer application – see steps below.Uninstall the Photos app – this will automatically re-enable the Windows Photo Viewer application and set it to handle all your image types – see Windows 10 – How to uninstall Photos app.

There are two ways to bring back the Windows Photo Viewer – If you preferred the old Windows Photo Viewer the good news is you can re-enable it in Windows 10. Windows 10 comes with a range of new applications for using your files, one of these is ‘Photos’ which replaces Windows Photo Viewer (also known as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) from Windows 7 and 8.
