XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tony Cooper wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:19:17 -0700, HenHanna    
   >> There is a  (Windows) tool called  Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer)  --- i don't   
   >> like it   
   >> because it launches  sluggishly....   
   >>   
   >> Esp. in the last 5 days or so, i'm noticing that almost every day   
   >> i have to go to Properties to  change it back to   
   >> my fav. Jpg, Png-viewer tool   
   >>   
   >> because the Windows update (?) is  pushing  Photos  on me.   
   >>   
   >>                            is there a Fix for this???   
   >   
   > I have thousands of images from .jpgs to .pngs on my computer.  I use   
   > the (free) FastStone Photo Viewer.  It's not only a great image   
   > viewer, but offers many other options from selecting by tagged images   
   > to bulk re-naming.  It's set as my default viewer.   
   >   
   > https://www.faststone.org/   
      
   https://www.irfanview.com/   
      
   I'm on windows 10, once installed I have to jump   
   through a couple of hoops to make it the default   
   but that's a one time thing. My one nit to pick is   
   that it doesn't have an auto update feature.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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