Enabling photo viewer in Windows Server 2019

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In case of Server 2019 machine being used as Desktop (eg RDSH VDI scenario), it might be useful to change default photo application from paint to photo viewer using:

1. Go to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer' and look for DLLs related to photo viewer. If they are not there, copy them from the same path from a Windows 10 machine.
2. Register the DLLs using Administrator CMD:

   regsvr32 “C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll”

3. Download the registry keys from https://smarthomepursuits.com/download/2844/ (Reference for these steps. Download is only 9.4KB in size)
4. Import the registry keys using 'regedit'. File > Import > browse to the location where four extracted registry files are present. All four need to be imported.
5. Chnage default photo app to "Photo viewer" by searching Windows for “Default Apps” and then changing Photos app to Windows Photo Viewer.
6. Search Windows for folder options. In folder Options. Change to the View tab and uncheck “Always show icons, never thumbnails”.

Refer:

• https://smarthomepursuits.com/enable-photo-viewer-on-server-2016-or-2019/

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