Enable Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10 TH1/TH2/RS1/RS2 and Windows Server 2016

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 Windows Photo Viewer is a quick desktop application for image viewing. In previous OS like Windows 8.1, it can be set as default through PC Settings,

 

But this won‘t work starting from Windows 10. The Windows Photo Viewer is not available in Default Apps setting, 

 

And we do not even have Photo AppStore application in Windows Server 2016, 

To get Windows Photo Viewer back, try the steps below,  

1. Make sure we have Photo Viewer. If not, copy the Windows Photo Viewer from another PC.

C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll

2. Save and import the Registry settings.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\Capabilities\FileAssociations]".jpg"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Jpeg"".wdp"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Wdp"".jfif"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.JFIF"".dib"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Bitmap"".png"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Png"".jxr"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Wdp"".bmp"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Bitmap"".jpe"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Jpeg"".jpeg"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Jpeg"".gif"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Gif"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\Capabilities\FileAssociations]".jpg"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Jpeg"".wdp"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Wdp"".jfif"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.JFIF"".dib"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Bitmap"".png"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Png"".jxr"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Wdp"".bmp"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Bitmap"".jpe"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Jpeg"".jpeg"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Jpeg"".gif"="PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Gif"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Bitmap]"ImageOptionFlags"=dword:00000001"FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,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,00,2c,00,2d,00,33,00,30,00,35,00,36,00,00,  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View registry key code

3. Now, you will be able to set Windows Photo Viewer as your default image app.

 

Enable Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10 TH1/TH2/RS1/RS2 and Windows Server 2016