tiff and there is no way to mark it to the discovery of other types of image files. Deleting the dll sounds promising - but I have 6 instances of photoviewer.dll. It seems this little gem is embedded much like IE was and not much progress was made in the last couple of years in extracting this thing. The old photo view application is associated only with the file extensions. I termed this question 'Remove, wipe, uninstall windows photo viewer' to make sure I get rid of this thing. So, the obvious answer is to disable these features. The developers of Windows 10 decided to replace the Windows Photo Viewer (default photo viewer) in favor of the modern app Photos. To “speed things up”, they have also enabled hardware acceleration for you, whether your computer is suited for this set up or not (how convenient!). Photo Viewer is trying to bring your photos into your connected life-style by connecting it up to your OneDrive account as well as enabling sharing for friends and family. As most free apps in 2019, “free” is not always “free”. It turns out that the default settings are less than ideal for performance. This behavior led me to suspect that the problem was that the program was waiting for something to connect or time out.
Once loaded, it seems more or less fine and will load quickly again the next time. If you want to skip to the good stuff, just look for the list in the next section.īasically, I think the issue is the result of several problems mixed together causing Photo Viewer to take up to 10 seconds to load. This was driving me crazy on multiple machines and, after playing around with a few options, I think I got to the root of the issue.
