Download these registry files for the Windows photo viewer. ![]() If you have installed Windows 10 from scratch, you need to follow these steps to activate it: If you have upgraded from a previous version to Windows 10, you would see the Windows Photo Viewer directly in the Default Apps menu under Settings. ![]() How to get Windows Photo Viewer back in Windows 10 I wouldn’t recommend manually editing them and hence you should download the. However, in order to make it work, you would have to tweak the registry keys. But, the developers still haven’t removed it from the system and it’s still accessible within the files. Coming to Windows 10, Microsoft universally replaced it with its updated version Photos. Formerly, it was known as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and later renamed to Windows Photo Viewer. Windows Photo Viewer has been a part of the Windows family since Windows XP. Now you can select any Photo viewer as your default image viewer. To do that on Windows 10, head over to the search bar and type Default. Next, go to Default Apps Settings > Photos. You also have to make it your default Photo viewer app. Enjoy!.Just a heads up, installing a third-party photo viewer app isn’t going to be enough. ![]() Other than that, for a user friendly & a lightweight (somewhat) image viewer, it looks pretty good. Unless it’s a ‘feature’ (I hope not :D), it seems like a bug. When comparing, I think it looks better in Ubuntu than how it looks in Windows (something looks a bit out of place, perhaps its the toolbars ).Īnother thing that’s worth mentioning is that, after enabling showing image thumbnails and mata-data on images for instance, if you exit the application, then the next time you open ‘nomacs, it switches back to its default view and you’ll have to re-enable them again. If you use MS Windows and Mac OS X, then please visit this ‘nomacs’ download page for obtaining the proper installer (that page also has instructions on how to install it in other GNU/Linux distributions such as OpenSuse, Fedora etc). Though I wouldn’t advice it, but you can use its ‘daily-builds’ PPA for getting the latest/unstable packages if you like.įor that, instead of the above commands, please use the below ones. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nomacs/stable For that, open your Terminal and enter the below commands. You can install ‘nomacs’ in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, 12.04 Precise Pangolin, 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and 11.04 Natty Narwhal by using its ‘stable’ PPA. Though its window is already quite simplified, but if you want an even more simpler looking UI, then you can easily disable the Toolbar, the menu, Statusbar, the window frames. Save thumbnails for faster start-up times. ‘Paste’ images from the ‘Clipboard’ memory. Change the thumbnail size, default zoom levels, add/remove data fields from the ‘Exif’ viewer, adjust Synchronizing settings etc. Full screen view with a built in Slideshow viewer (change the delay, background color and add/remove image info displayed such as name, creation date etc). Easily enable or disable some of its features such as showing ‘meta-data’ (including ‘Exif’ data of digital cameras), image info (Name, Ratings, Creation date etc), playback buttons and thumbnails by using single keyboard shortcuts. Crop, Resize (including the ability to change between different resizing algorithms for an optimal output) Rotate, change the Opacity and a built in ‘pseudo-color’ editor. Supports a big number of image formats such as JPEG, BMP, PNG, ICO, GIF and many more. So when concerning those, in terms of being lightweight, it does reasonably well. The memory usage was slightly higher than in ‘Eye of Gnome’ (default image viewer in Ubuntu), but it does include few useful features such as a powerful image resizing window (with previews for comparing withe the source file), send or view images over LAN (network Syncing) and as mentioned above, uses transparent overlay windows. Remember, this is only an image viewer and not an image manager. It runs in GNU/Linux, MS Windows and Mac OS X platforms, supports a lot of popular image formats (JPEG, PNG, BMP, Raw images etc) and doesn’t consume a lot of system resources as well. ![]() ‘nomacs’ is an open source image viewer that comes with some basic editing options and an intuitive user interface (including transparent buttons and displaying image information in transparent overlay surfaces etc).
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