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• #WINDOWS 10 SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN PHOTOS HOW TO#

Open the administrative Command Prompt and paste following command, press Enter key then.

#WINDOWS 10 SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN PHOTOS HOW TO#

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. Instead Windows 10 comes with a new modern (or metro) app called Photos (sometimes with Paint 3D) which is now the default image viewer program in Windows 10. So all I wanted is to let my images open with Windows Photo Viewer by default, as it is still present in Windows. If you are using Windows 10 operating system in your computer, you might have noticed that it doesn’t come with Windows Photo Viewer program as default to open image files. 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. Select Default apps from the left sidebar. Press Win + I shortcut keys and open Windows Settings app and click on the Apps option. Actually, Windows Photo Viewer is still available in Windows 10 but it seems hidden by default. Windows 10 offers a dedicated setting to setup default apps to open different files. 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.