Here is some of the gear I use in my Homelab. That’s all there is to it! Hopefully this guide helped you out. That will change it from looking like this: Change to the View tab and uncheck “Always show icons, never thumbnails”. This step is optional, but if you’d like to see a preview of the images from File Explorer (instead of just icons), you can do that by changing the File Explorer options. If you’d like to make Photo Viewer your default photo viewing application, search Windows for “Default Apps” and then change Photos to Windows Photo Viewer. You should now be able to right-click an image file and Open With Windows Photo Viewer!
zip file and extract it to a temporary location.įile > Import > browse to the location you extracted the 4 registry files.
jpeg.ĭownload registry files from here: MS Photoviewer Registry Files.zip This allows us to “Open With…” from File Explorer and choose Windows Photo Viewer, as well as set default file associations for various file types, such as. dll’s are registered, we need to import the registry keys. Step 3: Download PhotoViewer Registry Keys Then copy and paste the following code: regsvr32 “C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll” Open Command Prompt ( type CMD into Start) and right-click to Run as Administrator. Now that we know the necessary files are present, we need to register them. If you don’t see those files, simply browse to the path above from a Windows 10 PC & copy the folder contents to the same path on your server. dll files there, that means the files exist but aren’t registered. Step 1: Check if Photo Viewer DLL’s Existīrowse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer on the server. The first thing we need to do is check whether or not the DLL’s exist on the server. How to Enable Photo Viewer in Windows Server 2019īy default, Photo Viewer isn’t installed or active. If you’re curious about my server build, I am using Follow the steps below if you’ve ran into the same issue. In particular, one of the things I learned was that the default “photo viewer” is set to Paint.įortunately, this was a quick fix. However, I soon learned that there are a few things I wasn’t aware of on Server 2019. As a sysadmin, I’ve become really proficient with Windows operating systems, Powershell, Hyper-V, PFsense, etc, so I figured moving to a known OS would simplify things for me in the long run.
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