Why does Win10 Photo viewer flash other images between 'next' image ?? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MathWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2025, 05:14:34 am
content: This is driving me mad right now, I'm looking at a bunch of scope screen shots on a 32 or 64GB USB thumbdrive.And in the default win10 'Photos' image viewer, most of the time when I hit the next image arrow, on the edge of the program window, some other image on the thumbdrive, gets flashed up on screen for a fraction of a second, before the next image gets displayed. Normally, the screen goes a bit blurry between images, but for those above, it flashes another image.It starts when on SDS824X_HD_PNG_1 going forward, and stopped at #40.Ok the files it's showing, are ones I took before and moved into another directory on this drive. So my scope started saving at #1 again, and these are the ones with the same name, but now "in another directory". IDK what it really means to make and move files into a dir. on SSD thumbdrive.If I open the old #1 file inside it's directory, 1 down from the new files, I don't get the new group flashing between next image.But why would the photoviewer show them for a few hundred millisec before showing the correct next file ? Is it more the way the thumbdrive works ?

author: TizianoHV
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2025, 08:07:06 am
content: It is not the answer you asked for but if you want you can use this image viewer ->https://github.com/sylikc/jpegviewIt will open images instantly.I always hated the slow launch and weird auto-resizes of windows photo viewer...

author: Siwastaja
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2025, 08:31:27 am
content: Hey, it's Windows. Windows always was "just an OS" and come with no usable userland software whatsoever - you just download what you need. In this case, image viewer program. Something like Irfanview pops into my mind as an absolute classic. For some reason, MS considers "shipped with OS" programs as tech demos only, so you have separate ecosystem of actual third-party programs.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2025, 10:36:37 am
content: Windows built in file viewer is not great. I recommend 'Honeyview' although it's unsupported now. It would not surprise me if you have discovered a bug.

author: shabaz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2025, 11:38:37 am
content: Possibly cached thumbnails of the older files with the same name are rendering while the file loads, i.e. the old files were moved but not the cache content.I don't know for sure. I use Win 11 and don't use the photo viewer that way. I thought most people just viewed the entire folder with large thumbnails in the Windows file Explorer, and then double-clicked on their chosen file (or dragged onto their favorite image viewer).

author: squadchannel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2025, 11:45:27 am
content: windows photo Viewer was last good in 7. It's garbage starting with 10.recommend IrfanView. it's light, no annoying updates, and you can easily do basic image editing like cropping, resizing, and batch conversion.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2025, 07:48:37 am
content: Has the default Photo Viewer even changed? Or did our IT install/enable the old version on our Windows 11 24H2 clients?It still looks exactly the same as i remember it earlier, with the shaded control panel at the bottom, and it is associated with several common picture formats.I actually still like it a lot. Its incredible simple, and it allows to use the arrow keys to flip though images very quickly. And it's included in Windows.

author: u666sa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2025, 11:04:44 am
content: Well what you do is uninstall it from options, apps. Then install from windows shop thishttps://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9WZDNCRFJBH4?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare