View photos in a file folder - Windows 10

 Windows 10 only allows opening pictures one at a time in a program...

Options are Microsoft Photos, Paint (under Windows Accessories), and a couple of apps that I tried and have long uninstalled because they did not work. The app "Gallery HD" came close, but you have to load all the images into the app each time you use it, so if you have more that a handful of images to look through, the load time was painful.

If I "open with" Microsoft Photos in a "Pictures" folder, I am able to click through the images, but not in a generic folder. I checked the folder properties to compare "Pictures" vs. file folders in hopes that I could simply change a folder setting, but saw no differences.

I used to use "Windows Photo Viewer" in the Windows Accessories that came with previous versions of Windows. It worked great, but is now unavailable. I have found a couple websites that say it is still available if I edit the registry. A couple offered to do it for me by clicking on a link and I presume allowing an unknown entity to make changes to my registry (I am not going to do that unless the site is Microsoft or a trusted entity). I would like to avoid diving into the registry if possible.

Mike

Update:

I just found a Windows Ten Forums post (scroll down to a post by Edwin) that allowed me to copy text to Notepad and save it to a *.reg file. This way I can see and control what is going into my registry (which will make forensics simple if something untoward happens...). I closed the file and then clicked on it in the directory in which I saved it, answered "yes" a question as to whether I really wanted to change the registry, and it updated the registry.

I can now select Windows Photo Viewer to view images in my file folders.

Mike

I see you found the Registry hack that will bring back Photo Viewer, that is probably the best option, but just in case here is another solution.

Open File Explorer, on the View Ribbon, click Preview pane and then resize the preview pane by dragging the bar in the middle, then you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate through your images . . .