


One quick method of achieving this is to find an image file in File Explorer, right-click it and choose Open with > Choose another app. A workaround is to set it as the default for each file extension you want to use it with. On newer versions of Windows 10, we’ve found Windows Photo Viewer no longer shows up as an available option in the default apps list – even if it is enabled. It will now be used as the default app when opening an image file. In the list that appears, click Windows Photo Viewer. Navigate to the “Default apps” page and click the “Photo viewer” tile. To reverse this, open the Settings app and click the “Apps” category.

You’ll be able to access it from the “Open with” menu on image files.Īll you need to do is change it back to the default image viewer – Windows will have automatically configured Photos as the default during setup. If you performed an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 on an existing PC (through the Get Windows 10 app), you should find Windows Photo Viewer is still available. If you upgraded from Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 If you miss the simpler experience from the Windows 7 era, read on to reinstate it. While an altogether more sophisticated offering, it can’t match the old Windows Photo Viewer app for sheer speed and simplicity when viewing single image files. Windows 10 introduced the shiny new Photos app as the default experience for interacting with image files on your PC.
