Since its target is just to resurface the hidden image viewer app, the app features an extremely simple interface whose only function is to change the default image file association from the Photo image viewer app to the classic Windows Photo Viewer. It allows users to set Windows Photo Viewer again as their default photo viewing app, and it does so in mere seconds! The Restore Windows Photo Viewer weights in at less than 2 MB in size. This utility is not an installer for this popular photo viewing app, but instead searches the main Windows 11/10 directory for any traces of this application and brings it back into active use.

Revert to Microsoft Photos App at any time.

Set Windows Photo Viewer as a default photo viewer.

Restore the missing Windows Photo Viewer to Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Apply changes to either current user or all users on a computer.Many people who are not satisfied with Windows 10/11 default photo viewing apps are trying to install other similar applications, never knowing that the classic Windows Photo Viewer is still part of their OS, only deeply hidden and not easily accessible. After being temporarily removed in Windows Vista, it returned to Windows 8 only to be once again lost in Windows 10/Windows 11.

The classic Windows Photo Viewer was originally introduced in the Windows NT family of operating systems and has started being used by hundreds of millions of people after it was added to Windows XP as the default photo viewing app. The old Photo Viewer app can effortlessly handle many commonly used image formats such as t JPEG, JPG, JPE, JFIF, BMP, DIB, ICO, PNG, TIFF, TIF, GIF, WDP, and JXR. But not everyone likes that app, and they prefer to get the classic application back.

Instead of giving everyone access to this app, Windows 11/Windows 10 has sent this app into retirement by introducing a brand-new Universal Windows Platform app called Photos. Restore Windows Photo Viewer is a lightweight system utility app that can help users of the Windows 10/11 operating system to restore the presence of the classic and much bellowed Windows Photo Viewer application.

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