In the Save window, select “All Files” for the “Save as type” and save the file with a “.reg” extension – such as “PhotoViewer.reg.”Īll that remains is to run the registry script – double-click the file and acknowledge the prompts which are displayed. Open Notepad from the Start menu, copy and paste the script into the editor and save the file. To use this technique, you’ll need to copy the code from the forum post into a new registry script. Here comes a standard warning – registry edits are unsupported by Microsoft and could cause unpredictable consequences for your system.Ĭredit goes to nexus over on TenForums for discovering the correct registry keys at Windows 10’s release. As Windows Photo Viewer doesn’t have its own executable (.exe), re-enabling it requires modification of the system registry to add a launch target for the Windows Photo Viewer library (PhotoViewer.dll). On fresh installs, the app is hidden away and disabled.
Unfortunately, reinstating Windows Photo Viewer on a clean copy of Windows 10 is rather more cumbersome. Select Windows Photo Viewer in the list and then tick the checkbox at the bottom to “Always use this app to open.” If you did a clean install of Windows 10, or have a brand new device 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.
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