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Improve loading performance of Windows Photo Viewer

Submitted by broccauley on June 28, 2009 to Usability

Windows Photo Viewer takes too long to open a photograph. For me (2GHz Pentium M), it causes a slight pause before opening. The XP photo viewer has better performance in this respect.

Improve photo viewer's performance - it's only supposed to be a simple lightweight viewer, and has very very few features, so see no reason why it doesn't load instantaneously.

Extra features are supposedly in Windows Live Photo Gallery. Given the extra features in WLPG, I can accept the same pause before loading in WLPG, but not in Photo Viewer.

See also:
http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2246
http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2486

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Discussion (1 comments)

Username wrote on January 6, 2010, 8:43am

Photo Viewer falls short for nearly every aspect; It is neither fast loading nor feature rich. I find myself a bit baffled when using it. If the window isn't going to resize to the image, or the image isn't going to be expanded to the window (properly), then why should it load so slow? It's even more problematic on higher-resolution/corrected displays, where you get nothing you need - at a very big price.

Comment edited on January 6, 2010, 8:45am

Comment edited on January 6, 2010, 8:47am

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