Windows Photo Viewer Delay, Openning Wierdly

Callender said:

What happens if you try another viewer? Do you still get a delay? Here's a portable image viewer and it's very fast:

NexusImage: Simple and Beautiful Image Viewer for Windows

Nope, it doesnt behave like this. But I would prefer to use windows viewer and it's controls. At least would like to fix this first before having to resort to third party programs on a clean installation of windows...

How many image files do you have on the HDD? It's my experience having a lot of images does slow the viewer down as it has to 'read' all the files available to it. I also notice it when manually accessing image files stored on an External USB Drive.

Berton said:

How many image files do you have on the HDD? It's my experience having a lot of images does slow the viewer down as it has to 'read' all the files available to it. I also notice it when manually accessing image files stored on an External USB Drive.

Tens of thousands. But that's not it because I have 2 HDDs, external HDDs, flash drives, and SSD, i get the same behavior on all regardless of how many images, and I never have this before reinstalling windows or the SSD.

It also doesnt matter if i'm in the actual folder, or the pictures library.

It's not typical "slowness", it's a weird behavior. The first image I open is instantly. Then I close it, wait a second, try to open another image, and then there is a few second delay before photo viewer even appears. During this delay if I click pictures more, it will result in opening it several times. If I just highlight another picture, it opens that one instead.

Callender said:

Berton said:

How many image files do you have on the HDD? It's my experience having a lot of images does slow the viewer down as it has to 'read' all the files available to it. I also notice it when manually accessing image files stored on an External USB Drive.

I think Berton is probably correct. If you don't get the problem when opening a folder located say - on your desktop that contains only a few images then it would seem to confirm his theory.

As an experiment you can try this. I know you don't wish to use other software but just try creating your own defined thumbnail cache location and allow the program to load thumbnails from it just to see if it's fast.

Windows Explorer only processes images on screen not all in file?

I DO get the problem on any drive. Other image views are fast and work fine, but I dont prefer their controls.

I have 2 HDDs, external HDDs, flash drives, and SSD, i get the same behavior on all regardless of how many images

The only thing that works is to open an image, minimize it, and open other images. It's as if I have to leave windows photo viewer running, and closing it and reopening it causes the problem. But I dont know why, I never had this before or on any other computer.

Hi, is this problem has been solved yet? in another thread maybe?
Cuz i have the "exact" same problem as djvtech. First time opening an image it run smooth, close it, then try to open another one after a few second, it delayed.. and also like this

djvtech said:

During this delay if I click pictures more, it will result in opening it several times. If I just highlight another picture, it opens that one instead.

and sometimes it doesn't even showing the picture, just an empty windows photo viewer with "Loading..." written in it.
It's really weird, it's like when you close the photo viewer, it kills the processes, and when you tried to open it again, it fails to load the processes smoothly/correctly.. :/
sorry for bringing this up again and bad English.. Also thx b4..

2dheeey said:

Hi, is this problem has been solved yet? in another thread maybe?
Cuz i have the "exact" same problem as djvtech. First time opening an image it run smooth, close it, then try to open another one after a few second, it delayed.. and also like this

djvtech said:

During this delay if I click pictures more, it will result in opening it several times. If I just highlight another picture, it opens that one instead.

and sometimes it doesn't even showing the picture, just an empty windows photo viewer with "Loading..." written in it.
It's really weird, it's like when you close the photo viewer, it kills the processes, and when you tried to open it again, it fails to load the processes smoothly/correctly.. :/
sorry for bringing this up again and bad English.. Also thx b4..

Nope.

The only temporary workaround I found is to open and image, minimize it, then I'm able to open and close images in explorer without the hang. it's like windows photo viewer window has to be running, but if it's closed and I try to open another image it wont open that image for a few seconds.