As most free apps in 2019, “free” is not always “free”. It turns out that the default settings are less than ideal for performance. This behavior led me to suspect that the problem was that the program was waiting for something to connect or time out. Once loaded, it seems more or less fine and will load quickly again the next time. If you want to skip to the good stuff, just look for the list in the next section.īasically, I think the issue is the result of several problems mixed together causing Photo Viewer to take up to 10 seconds to load. Any suggestions? I'm running Windows 10 Home, version 1903, OS Build 18362.This was driving me crazy on multiple machines and, after playing around with a few options, I think I got to the root of the issue.

I thought the registry changes would be the sure fix as others seem to have had great success, but it's still not working for me.

Tweaking the registry, for instance following the directions in this thread:.

Uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft Photos.

Scroll to next photo in Microsoft Photos and an incorrect photo appears, often dozens forward or back in the correct sort order.

Double-click on a photo and it opens in Microsoft Photos app.

In Explorer, photos display in correct order (usually I sort by date).

Since then, I've been experiencing a frustrating issue with the Microsoft Photos app, wherein it displays photos out of order when scrolling from one photo to the next.

A few months back I was having some hardware trouble with my W10 desktop - I ended up doing a clean install of Windows and recovered all my files from my external hard drive.

Microsoft photo viewer