Photo Viewer

Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.

Any help would be appreciated.

wrote:
Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.

Any help would be appreciated.

It's the Photos App.

Right-clicking the item should show the Photos App
bound to the image type you're trying to open. It should
be in the right-click context menu.

Whether the WIN32 program you're asking to use the Photos App
can trigger it, I don't know the answer to that. The binding
is there to make it work, but I don't know if a Win32 program
can call an App like that.

https://i.postimg.cc/nLYZXySF/called...its-an-App.gif

The Photos App is not an EXE as such. Clicking on the application
file would cause the screen to "blink a bit" but nothing opens.
I would not say that such behavior represents "good integration".
There is a clunky way to create a LNK to the thing, but
I wouldn't waste my time doing that if I were you.

If a third party Win32 is better for this, so be it.

Paul

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:09:08 -0700, wrote:

Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.


If you'd prefer to use the viewer that you know from Win 7 then
navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer. Map a
shortcut to the exe file on the desktop or the taskbar or make it your
default viewer if you want.

On 11/25/19 8:09 AM, wrote:
Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.

Any help would be appreciated.

My W10 learning platform is an old Vista era system. One thing you
learn with old and slow (by today's standard), is just how long it takes
a modern app to load and run, compared to the desktop version.

I use Skype for Desktop, not the Skype app.

I use the Photo Viewer mentioned by Peter Johnson, not the Photos app.

And so forth.

The choice is, of course, yours. :-)


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MacOS 10.14.6
Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.9
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

On 25/11/2019 15:09, wrote:
Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.

Any help would be appreciated.
Just double click on any image and voila the App will open automatically.

Elephants are generally very intelligent animals but you are the
exception here. you must be a baby elephant still learning things.



--
With over 1,000,000 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On 25/11/2019 17:13, Peter Johnson wrote:
If you'd prefer to use the viewer that you know from Win 7 then
navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer.

You are the most stupid person around talking about something that was
20 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your mum must be regretting not to abort you.





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satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On 25/11/2019 18:03, Ken Springer wrote:


The choice is, of course, yours. :-)



You are dying anyway so it doesn't matter anything crap you say or write
here.




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On 11/25/19 1:30 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 25/11/2019 18:03, Ken Springer wrote:


The choice is, of course, yours.Â* :-)



You are dying anyway so it doesn't matter anything crap you say or write
here.

But I still have a functioning brain that can understand what people are
asking. And I'll be here long after you have turned to dust and blown away.


--
Ken
MacOS 10.14.6
Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.9
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:03:21 -0700, Ken Springer wrote:

I use the Photo Viewer mentioned by Peter Johnson, not the Photos app.

I see the OP received the asked for answer.

In addition...
Most people I know use "Irfanview" instead.
https://www.irfanview.com

Does anyone who uses the MS photo viewer asked for have anything that the
MS viewer does that Irfanview doesn't do?

On 11/25/19 3:46 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:03:21 -0700, Ken Springer wrote:

I use the Photo Viewer mentioned by Peter Johnson, not the Photos app.

I see the OP received the asked for answer.

In addition...
Most people I know use "Irfanview" instead.
https://www.irfanview.com

Does anyone who uses the MS photo viewer asked for have anything that the
MS viewer does that Irfanview doesn't do?

Irfanview has far more capabilities than Photo Viewer. But it all
depends on what people's goals/needs are. i just changed set a W10
user's system, which for some reason had no photo default, to Adobe
Photoshop Elements. Which is what this user wanted.


--
Ken
MacOS 10.14.6
Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.9
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:09:08 -0700, wrote:

Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.

Any help would be appreciated.


A. The "Photos" app that comes with Windows 10 is here, but that
will probably not help you.

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2019.19 071.17920.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.Photos.ex e

It is a UWP/"Store" app, not a desktop app. UWP/"Store" apps
are started differently to desktop apps.

1) You cannot start "Photos" by using Microsoft.Photos.exe
as the command.
2) It does not take command-line parameters.


B. Windows 10 also has the Windows 7 "Photo Viewer" app, here and
here.

"C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll"
"C:\Windows\System32\shimgvw.dll"

These are DLLs, not .exe files.

If your 3rd party software happens to be Forté Agent, then in
that case you might want to see these threads in the Agent
newsgroup alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent for how to
start "Photo Viewer" from Agent.

* Jun 2019: Photos *.jpg/jpeg
* Dec 2017: Windows 10 - MIME association for graphic images
* Aug 2017: Windows Photo Viewer settings in Agent
* May 2016: Reinstalled Agent Version 2 Has Lost Image Display
* May 2011: How to associate to Windows Photo Viewer?

Why are there two DLLs, not one? Because shimgvw.dll used to be
the old Windows Fax and Picture Viewer in XP, but in Windows 10 it
just loads and runs Windows Photo Viewer.


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Kind regards
Ralph
🦊

On 11/26/2019 1:06 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:09:08 -0700, wrote:

Can someone tell me where to find the photo viewer that comes with
windows 10? I've searched everywhere but can't find the file that
opens it.

I've just come from using windows 7, and I knew where the file was for
7. I have 3rd party software that needs an external photo viewer. I
really don't want to install a seperate viewer.

Any help would be appreciated.
This changes the subject slightly but I think it is appropriated to the
idea behind your question. I have used the MS viewers but find
Irfanview much better for handling the task I need a viewer for.

https://www.irfanview.com/

It does all that the MS viewers do. In addition you can combine images
(Panorama Function) both horizontally and vertically.

If you are working with document images, there is an OCR plug in for
Irfanview, that convert those document images to text.

It can open and save to most image formats including the multi page
formats like PDF, TIF, and JPM.

It has batch processing capabilities like rename, color correction,
resizing, etc.

There are many additional function that I have not used.

"Try it you will like it." to quote an old commercial.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:06:52 +1300, Ralph Fox
wrote:

Boy, are you intuitive! I was talking about "Agent".

I went back into the dates you talked about. Sure enough, I copied
the command line into agent, and it worked like a dream

Thanks so much for your help

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:46:48 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder
wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:03:21 -0700, Ken Springer wrote:

I use the Photo Viewer mentioned by Peter Johnson, not the Photos app.

I see the OP received the asked for answer.

In addition...
Most people I know use "Irfanview" instead.
https://www.irfanview.com

Does anyone who uses the MS photo viewer asked for have anything that the
MS viewer does that Irfanview doesn't do?

I use Photo Viewer to view photos. If I want to do anything with them
then I use something else. It doesn't matter that Photo Viewer is 40
years old. I prefer it to anything else.
And the so-called ? Good Guy ? doesn't have to be so bloody rude.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:26:30 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:06:52 +1300, Ralph Fox
wrote:

Boy, are you intuitive! I was talking about "Agent".

I went back into the dates you talked about. Sure enough, I copied
the command line into agent, and it worked like a dream

Thanks so much for your help

You're welcome.