Does anyone remember the old image viewer in XP/7?

Och

Och

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So the photos app in windows 10 is utter crap, and I found a reg file that restores Windows Photo Viewer, which is much better. But I remember there was another viewer, very similar but it would display multiple thumbnails and allow to resize/edit multiple photos at the same time. Does anyone remember what its called and if it could be installed in windows 10?
 
Agree that Win10 Photos is utter garbage. How they ever thought this was an improvement of anything is beyond me. :nuts:

I installed and use Win7 Photo Gallery.
 
I found two. Microsoft Office Picture Manager from office 2007 and Windows Live Essentials Photo Gallery.
 
Ok, great, now iPhones take photos in a new format with .heic extension, and old viewers won't open it. Even windows photos wont open it. WTF?
 
Och said:
Ok, great, now iPhones take photos in a new format with .heic extension, and old viewers won't open it. Even windows photos wont open it. WTF?
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Settings>camera>Formats: change to most compatible. You'll get JPG.
 
Lazy8s said:
Settings>camera>Formats: change to most compatible. You'll get JPG.
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This is one of the first things I do when setting up a new iPhone. The HEIC viewer for Win10 has major issues for me.
 
Munkus said:
This is one of the first things I do when setting up a new iPhone. The HEIC viewer for Win10 has major issues for me.
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I learned the hard way, with my first company issued iphone. 4 hours on a major site, tons of photos for the survey. Photos that couldn't be viewed by everyone else that needed to see them :lol:
 
Lazy8s said:
I learned the hard way, with my first company issued iphone. 4 hours on a major site, tons of photos for the survey. Photos that couldn't be viewed by everyone else that needed to see them :lol:
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And they open perfectly on a Mac. Just another example of Apple thumbing their noses at Windows users.
 
Munkus said:
And they open perfectly on a Mac. Just another example of Apple thumbing their noses at Windows users.
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What fun is competition without a little creative use of digits being flashed back and forth? :p
 
Seyiji said:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmmsr1cgpwg?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
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That alone doesn't work. Besides the HEIF image extension you also need HEVC video extensions to view .heic files. MS Store sells these extensions for $0.99, which in itself is no problem, but a microsoft account is required to make a purchase, and ms account happens to be intrusive with sneaky, virus like behavior.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions/9nmzlz57r3t7?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
 
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