So, the obvious answer is to disable these features. El Visualizador de fotos de Windows no es parte de Windows 10, pero si actualizaste desde Windows 7 o Windows 8.1, es posible que aún lo tengas instalado. 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. Steps to update the Photos app: Open the Microsoft Store app on.

Microsoft Photos on Windows 10 is a multi-featured built-in app for viewing, editing, and sharing. Once loaded, it seems more or less fine and will load quickly again the next time. Photos are an integral aspect of your life and it’s frustrating when your default photo viewer application don’t let you view, edit, or share your images easily.

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.

Microsoft photo viewer update