Thursday, August 23, 2012

Windows 8 Photo "App"

If you're like me and like being able to open a picture without having everything disappear because the bundled "photo app" hijacks the desktop space, you'll want to do the following.

Option 1:
Uninstall the Photo "app" (it's a program, call it what it is people.  Unless app is short for crap, which most of them are....) from the start screen.  Just right click the tile, move your mouse to the bottom bar and hit uninstall. That will get rid of it for ever (I hope) and image viewer will take over.

Option 2:
Right click on any image file and choose "open with..."  Tick the box that makes it the default then choose image viewer.

At first I was worried that image viewer wasn't bundled anymore, but they wouldn't be that dumb, right?  After all, it's not like they removed support for .gif files or anything, no siree...

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