Questions tagged [windows-photo-viewer]
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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 "C:/Program Files/Windows Photo Viewer", or…
Irastris
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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 this picture because there might not be enough memory…
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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 same purpose, but they only appear sometimes. Other…
T. C.
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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 bright and you might want to view it on a black or…
Samir
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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 to look at. Something that bothers me is that when…
Anonymous
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How to change default view size of Windows 7 Photo Viewer
Is there a way to tweak Windows Photo Viewer so that it automatically opens images in actual size instead of fit in window?
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Windows Photo Viewer - Yellow?
I have a Dell M4500 attached to a dock with two Samsung SyncMaster 2443. For some reason all images in Windows Photo viewer have a yellow background and it distorts the image. Viewing the same image in say Paint or QuickTime PictureViewer doesn't…
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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 which does the same, but on the top of the…
playcat
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Is there any way to play GIFs with Windows Photo Viewer?
Is there any way to play GIFs with Windows Photo Viewer or with Picasa Viewer in Windows 7 when Internet Explorer isn't my default browser?
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How set set .gif files to open with windows photo viewer?
I have Installed Windows 7, which now opens .png and .jpg files with Windows Photo Viewer, but .gif files are opened with Paint.
Also, in the Open With context menu it doesn't suggest Windows Photo Viewer as one of the programs to open the file…
Orr Siloni
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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 on the user's OneDrive - but I don't imagine 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 Photo Viewer which it appears is a DLL file…
Ali Khan
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How to convert JPEG JFIF files to JPEG Exif format?
I recently put the SD card of my camera in a Windows 7 PC and start browsing pictures on it. I noticed some were not aligned correctly and use rotate feature included in Windows Photo Viewer in order to view them as I wanted.
What I didn't know is…
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Windows Photo Viewer terminating with "Com Surrogate" error in Portrait Mode
I'm using Windows 7 Professional SP1 (de, en, jp mui's installed before SP1 setup) with latest Intel HD graphics drivers and latest DirectX (to my knowledge)
On my Tablet PC, where rotating the screen is pretty standard, I have the following…
private_meta
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7-ZIP can't open pictures in Windows default photo viewer (Windows 7)
I updated 7-ZIP to the latest version 9.2, but when I try to open e.g. jpg from zip archive I always get a message "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because either this picture is deleted, or it's in a location that isn't available."
At…
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