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Comment by kelvin0 | Hacker News Reader

I noticed a horrendous slowdown of the default image viewer. Double-clicking on a small JPEG file (less then 1MB) can take up to 20s to finally view.

Got so bad, that I now have MS Paint as default image viewer.

I kinda like the image viewer's ability to view other pictures in the same directory, but the performance and waiting time to view anything was just way too terrible.

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It's all those little things where Apple really shines. Preview on the Mac is a fantastic piece of software.

Another example is Time Machine compared to the backup which comes with Windows. Microsoft have constantly mucked about with backup but have never managed to get it right. I can't imagine anybody relying on it. Time Machine is fantastic in comparison.

I use a Windows 8.1 tablet for work and really like that while 8.1 has the same excruciatingly long load time for the default image viewer, the old one from 7 (or maybe going back to XP?) is still available to set as the default. As long as I avoid the fullscreen apps, I think I like 8.1 better than 10 for usability.

Are you referring to the WIndows 10 image viewer? Yes it is now a "Metro" app I think. The good news is that you can restore the old Windows 7 picture viewer. There are instructions on how to restore this if you Google. Think its a registry change.

Someone on HN recently said that was some kind of problem with the image viewer being. UWP app. Don't recall the details tho.

Definitely drives me nuts though - how hard is it to show a JPEG?!

I can recommend ImageGlass.

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