The Photos app is already set up as
the default image viewer in Windows 10.
What the program lacks in sartorial splendor it makes up in speed and flexibility, and I soon set it as
the default image viewer for every format except full Photoshop and Illustrator files.
Not exact matches
You also don't need to change the
default apps to different
image and PDF
viewers — those new - style applications will now open in windows on the desktop rather than ripping you away to another interface.
Even on medium - sized
images with complex effects, trying to load them with the
default Windows XP
image viewer was painfully slow, sometimes only a few seconds faster than booting up the cumbersome Photoshop program from a cold start.
Most of us end up with changing the
default browser or
image viewer to another program of our choice.