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Remove Image Viewing from Windows Media Player; Improve Photo Viewer

Submitted by broccauley on May 27, 2009 to Legacy, Usability

See the discussion here:
http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2482

There is no reason to have image viewing in Windows Media Player. It just adds bloat and Windows Photo Viewer and/or Windows Live Photo Gallery should be used for this task. WMP does not use the Pictures library and does not seem to use much of the photo indexing and tagging features that Windows 7 adds.

Take the style of picture viewing from WMP and use that style in Windows Photo Viewer. The way Windows Media Player displayed photos was actually superior to Windows Photo Viewer, but this functionality is in the wrong program.

Windows Photo Viewer should also be more lightweight and responsive than in RC1. For me, Photo Viewer does not load as instantaneously as a simple photo viewer application should.

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Discussion (1 comments)

PMD wrote on March 1, 2010, 12:20pm

Windows default photo viewer does indeed waste a ton of space, which is more evident when using a netbook. At the very least, there should be a full screen option that isn't just a slideshow.

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