Solved Windows Photo Viewer is insanely SLOW!

[bd74]

I'm running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.
Pictures take several seconds to load on Windows Photo Viewer, especially when I'm switching from one picture to another. And it's not my computer that's causing it be slow, because I've got 2GB of RAM. When I had Windows XP, I never had that problem with the Windows picture viewer.

What should I do? Is there some other picture-viewing program that I can use that will work faster?

 

[armyslowrdr]

try Irfanview---it's a free download and most excellent.

I'm running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.
Pictures take several seconds to load on Windows Photo Viewer, especially when I'm switching from one picture to another. And it's not my computer that's causing it be slow, because I've got 2GB of RAM. When I had Windows XP, I never had that problem with the Windows picture viewer.

What should I do? Is there some other picture-viewing program that I can use that will work faster?

 

[hybridfan]

I agree Irfanview is my viewer of choice, it also has a most excellent slideshow feature. Do you add comments at all to your images, maybe you add a lot of exif detail to your images, just a theory on why images are loading slow.

 

[Spankmaster]

Windows Photo Viewer is insanely SLOW!

SOLUTION - At some stage you probably color calibrated your display using the tool in Windows 7. As soon as you remove this calibration profile speed will return to normal.

Right Click Desktop -> Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Color Management -> Color Management -> Advanced -> Change System Defaults

Then click on the default profile (the one you are using now) and click Remove. The profile should have some string in it like 'calibrated' ( I forget, I just deleted mine ). Make sure the new default profile does not have the 'calibrated' string in it. When you click Remove you will probably note some change in the screen colors as another profile becomes the default.

Now suddenly the image viewer will be lightning fast.
Go figure.

 

[solidusnake]

Windows Photo Viewer is insanely SLOW!

SOLUTION - At some stage you probably color calibrated your display using the tool in Windows 7. As soon as you remove this calibration profile speed will return to normal.

Right Click Desktop -> Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Color Management -> Color Management -> Advanced -> Change System Defaults

Then click on the default profile (the one you are using now) and click Remove. The profile should have some string in it like 'calibrated' ( I forget, I just deleted mine ). Make sure the new default profile does not have the 'calibrated' string in it. When you click Remove you will probably note some change in the screen colors as another profile becomes the default.

Now suddenly the image viewer will be lightning fast.
Go figure.

thanks!

 

[skoobydoo]

Thank you Spankmaster, this fixed my issue with windows photo viewer being verrrry slow too. I've had win7 since it first came out and never had this problem before, the only difference was, as you stated, i used the calibration tool last week.

 

[1nfected]

SOLUTION - At some stage you probably color calibrated your display using the tool in Windows 7. As soon as you remove this calibration profile speed will return to normal.

Right Click Desktop -> Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Color Management -> Color Management -> Advanced -> Change System Defaults

Then click on the default profile (the one you are using now) and click Remove. The profile should have some string in it like 'calibrated' ( I forget, I just deleted mine ). Make sure the new default profile does not have the 'calibrated' string in it. When you click Remove you will probably note some change in the screen colors as another profile becomes the default.

Now suddenly the image viewer will be lightning fast.
Go figure.

Hey, that did it! Thanks a lot Spankmaster

 

[katrinamm]

Thanks Spankmaster, I have a tendency to push all the buttons on my laptop when I have a problem and I would never have thought to link the speed of my Windows Photo Viewer to my fiddling with the screen colour settings. Cheers.

 

[mazenssd]

Thanks Spankmaster

 

[NecroticisM666]

I agree Irfanview is my viewer of choice, it also has a most excellent slideshow feature. Do you add comments at all to your images, maybe you add a lot of exif detail to your images, just a theory on why images are loading slow.

I agree to this..you can also try Picasa, which has more feature to manage your pictures..

 

[omega1227]

IrfanView. There is nothing else.

 

[Hikeman]

Hey guys I had a same problem, and I resolved it with a same way, but my problem is that I want my display be calibrated the way I want. So am I suppose yo choose to have normal working Windows Photo Viewer or Calibrated display, or I have other solution to calibrate my display ??? (cuz I don't wanna have other photo viewer). Maybe I can calibrate it somehow else??
Pleas let me know if you know anything about this, thank you very much.

 

[Markkyboy]

Big thanks to Spankmaster!
Much kudos!, this was driving me mad!
Thanks again!

 

[gardenkeeper]

Try some other viewer, you can google it to get more!

 

[onesix18]

Thank you!

Thank you! This solved the problem!

Windows Photo Viewer is insanely SLOW!

SOLUTION - At some stage you probably color calibrated your display using the tool in Windows 7. As soon as you remove this calibration profile speed will return to normal.

Right Click Desktop -> Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Color Management -> Color Management -> Advanced -> Change System Defaults

Then click on the default profile (the one you are using now) and click Remove. The profile should have some string in it like 'calibrated' ( I forget, I just deleted mine ). Make sure the new default profile does not have the 'calibrated' string in it. When you click Remove you will probably note some change in the screen colors as another profile becomes the default.

Now suddenly the image viewer will be lightning fast.
Go figure.

 

[vzsoft]

Thanx Spankmaster

 

[razoraura84]

I am using win 7 home premium. i had the same problem. done what spankmaster suggest.but still the same. plz help

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

The problem I had with Windows 7 Photo Viewer is some of my pictures would be displayed vertically compressed, often severely. I fixed that by using M$ Office Picture Manager instead. Even that one isn't as good as the picture viewer XP had.

 

[Reza]

Thank you "Spankmaster" for your nice Solution.
my problem has solved too.
thanks a lot.

 

[willywonkareal]

Thanks "Spankmaster"'s solution I no longer have the windows image viewer being so slow. Well done. I will add that I delete my profiles, and had no profiles at all. It was a little confusing to the fact if there should or shouldn't be a profile, it's fine if you delete the profile and there are none left. Your system will work.