So, the obvious answer is to disable these features. To “speed things up”, they have also enabled hardware acceleration for you, whether your computer is suited for this set up or not (how convenient!). Photo Viewer is trying to bring your photos into your connected life-style by connecting it up to your OneDrive account as well as enabling sharing for friends and family. As most free apps in 2019, “free” is not always “free”. It turns out that the default settings are less than ideal for performance. This behavior led me to suspect that the problem was that the program was waiting for something to connect or time out. Photos now recognises installed third-party photo apps and offers an easy hand off for more advance editing. The filmstrip gives you a preview of the photos and videos in that location. Once loaded, it seems more or less fine and will load quickly again the next time. Compare several photos and videos in the same app window using multi-view mode. If you want to skip to the good stuff, just look for the list in the next section.īasically, I think the issue is the result of several problems mixed together causing Photo Viewer to take up to 10 seconds to load. This was driving me crazy on multiple machines and, after playing around with a few options, I think I got to the root of the issue.
