- #HOW TO STOP WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER FROM OPENING HOW TO#
- #HOW TO STOP WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER FROM OPENING FULL#
- #HOW TO STOP WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER FROM OPENING WINDOWS 10#
Like removing Windows Photo Viewer in favor of "Photos" app.
#HOW TO STOP WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER FROM OPENING FULL#
I recently had to replace a Win 7 machine that died and have to say Win 10 is full of these (stupid) little surprises. Microsoft thinks they are being helpful but they clearly didn't think this one thru (or at least they are not photographers.) Now with Win 10 I have to scroll thru two of the same previews for every file - plus wait for the. jpgs without needing to preview the RAW version of the same image. This works in most editors/file-viewers I know but I could find no way to do it in Photos.ĭoesn't hurt to save it. It's not what you wanted but it does separate the files so you are not looking at matching pairs. jpg files are mixed I choose to view by file type and adjust ascending or descending to suit which is viewed first. In Windows I use File Explorer but have tried Photo Gallery too. I always use Bridge in Photoshop but on occasion just view in Windows 10.
#HOW TO STOP WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER FROM OPENING WINDOWS 10#
In windows 10 "Photos" is, to me, a totally useless app while "Photo Gallery" is little better. However, my workaround is to alter the viewing of files.
#HOW TO STOP WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER FROM OPENING HOW TO#
No idea as to how to change raw files to icon, sorry. So how do I (if possible) set it so windows ignores the RAW files and just shows an icon like before? Now in Windows 10 they are all thumbnails and when I preview my images the RAW's are shown as well so I have to view 2 of everything!
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I shoot RAW+JPEG and previous versions of windows showed the JPEG thumbnail together with the RAW icon so it was easy to tell which was which and only the JPEGS would display in windows. Hi all, does anyone know if this can be done and how? HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExtsĭoesn't exist I don't know what else to suggest. I'm running Windows 10, but it should be the same for Win8 or Win7. The registry key should exist, and the filename extension you want to delete the key for needs to match what your raw filename extension is (i.e.CR2 for Canon EOS). I used registry editor but could not find "fileExts". Can you explain the process in a little more detail? It would be most appreciated. I wouldn't mind the raw thumbnails if my pc was fast enough to load them, however its not and it lags. Does anyone else know of a way to disable the opening of raw files at the application level? Or, is there a decent 3rd party photo viewer that only traverses JPGs? Only thing I know of that may work is to uninstall the Microsoft codec pack. I like to whiz through only the JPG files when viewing with Windows Photo Viewer (or Photos), but it will still open the raw files. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.CR2 Using Regedit, delete the following keys (export them in case you want to put them back): I prefer it as you suggested, and to have the Canon RAW files show up as generic icons in Explorer I did the following: