Microsoft replaced the classic Windows Photo Viewer app in Windows 10 and 11 with the new Photos app. Fortunately, you can restore Windows Photo Viewer on your Windows computer using a registry hack.

We’ll need to restore Photo Viewer. It was available in previous versions of Windows, but with Windows 11/10, Microsoft chose to omit it in favor of the Photo app. Follow this registry ...

the Photos app is set as the default picture viewer. The Preview option for images in the context menu shows up only when the Windows Photo Viewer is set as the default app for a specific image type.