There is a great reason for this 🙂 I like the Windows Photo Viewer which offers one-handed zooming with the mouse wheel and you just use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move to the next image. On the new Windows 10 photo viewer you have to press Ctrl to zoom with the mouse wheel and have to zoom right back before you can click the arrows at each side to go to the next or previous image.
To get the Windows 7 photo viewer back in Windows 10 is described in this article hereTo summarise all you need to do is
- Add these entries to the registry – copy them into a text file then rename it to a .reg file. Then double click the file to import it to the registry.
- Right click on a photo and choose the app to open it as “Windows Photo Viewer”.
This is quite a safe procedure because the registry entries contained below refer to the existing photoviewer.dll which is part of Windows and already installed in your system. It is not adding anything new to your system.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dll]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellopen]
“MuiVerb”=”@photoviewer.dll,-3043”[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellopencommand]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,
6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,22,00,25,
00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,
25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,68,00,6f,
00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,00,68,00,
6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,
00,22,00,2c,00,20,00,49,00,6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,
5f,00,46,00,75,00,6c,00,6c,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,25,
00,31,00,00,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellopenDropTarget]
“Clsid”=”{FFE2A43C-56B9-4bf5-9A79-CC6D4285608A}”[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellprint]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellprintcommand]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,
6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,22,00,25,
00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,
25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,68,00,6f,
00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,00,68,00,
6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,
00,22,00,2c,00,20,00,49,00,6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,
5f,00,46,00,75,00,6c,00,6c,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,25,
00,31,00,00,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellprintDropTarget]
“Clsid”=”{60fd46de-f830-4894-a628-6fa81bc0190d}”
Please note this has been updated to fix the problem with the above registry entries. There turned out to be a problem with copying them from the reg file to paste into this post, which has something to do with the way the registry file is formatted.