Problems with Windows Photo Viewer

When i click a picture to view it open OK, but after i close it and click another one (or the same) it won't open. I checked task manager and there is dllhost.exe, if i close dllhost or wait some time it will close automatically and then i can see the picture, so basically is a "delay" which is starting to annoy me.


Here is what i got from Event Viewer

<EventData>
<Data>DllHost.exe</Data>
<Data>6.1.7600.16385</Data>
<Data>4a5bca54</Data>
<Data>gdiplus.dll</Data>
<Data>6.1.7601.17514</Data>
<Data>4ce7c457</Data>
<Data>c000041d</Data>
<Data>00000000000591f7</Data>
<Data>724</Data>
<Data>01cbe12bdc734a89</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows.gdiplus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.1.7601.17514_none_2b24536 c71ed437a\gdiplus.dll</Data>
<Data>266b3338-4d1f-11e0-8227-001f16a7291d</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Is my default viewer.

To close it i click the X. I have a folder with pictures and thumbnails enable so i can pick some of them to watch. Some one told me to do sfc /scannow but that didn't helpe.

Have you installed any software recently that relates to picture or video viewing?

None that i recall. I was thinking to reinstall Windows 7 and then restore programs, documents, etc.. with windows backup, but then i thought it could also restore the problem.

You could also just do a system repair instead of reinstall.

Repair Install

My disc is a Windows Upgrade disc that Acer was offering when buying a laptop with Vista so i can only upgrade from another operating system (at least that's the message that pop up when i try to do the in place upgrade) and a clean install. It seems there is not fix for the dllhost problem. I just ended making the Thumbnails bigger so i can preview the pictures without actually opening them.