

It's definitely worth a try, especially since it's free. I preferred Visum Photo Viewer over the Microsoft Photos app for my workflow, which consists of browsing through hundreds of photos to pick out a few that I like. But it's called Visum Photo Viewer not Visum Photo Editor, so its feature set isn't surprising. You can only perform basic image edits, and the app lacks a video editor, even for trimming content. Visum Photo Viewer is light on the editing side of things. Its design is easy to navigate, and you can customize the interface a bit to fit your liking. It loads photos quickly and allows you to browse through galleries without bogging down your machine. If you handle a lot of images, then Visum Photo Viewer is a solid choice. %SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.Source: Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Windows Central)

Open the administrative Command Prompt and paste following command, press Enter key then. However, there is no manual setting to let you easily set Windows Photo Viewer as default program for opening image files.Īt last, you need to do follow either of these methods to make this possible: How To Open Images With Windows Photo Viewer In Windows 10 Method 1 – Using Command Promptġ. So all I wanted is to let my images open with Windows Photo Viewer by default, as it is still present in Windows. This looks like the strategy of Windows team to let people get habitual with Photos app so that they forgot the Windows Photo Viewer.īut the Windows Photo Viewer is really a light weighted program and I personally found Photos app not much impressive so far. Actually, Windows Photo Viewer is still available in Windows 10 but it seems hidden by default. So what happened to Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10? Is Windows Photo Viewer not a part of Windows 10? The answer to these questions is simply No.

In recent edition of Windows, by default the images has opened with Windows Photo Viewer. When you open images in Windows 10, they’re getting previewed using Photos app by default.
