How to Fix Photo Viewer of Windows 7

The Windows 7 Photo Viewer is a convenient feature for viewing full photos instead of just thumbnails. The Photo Viewer of Windows 7 allows for basic image editing tools like rotating the photos and zooming in/out for more preview detail. However, a small “bug” can slow down the performance of Photo Viewer. It causes the very slow loading an display of pictures – even those that are low resolution and file size. This bug that causes the slowdown of Photo Viewer is easy to fix.

Photos below show the slow performance of Windows 7 Photo Viewer when attempting to open a jpg wallpaper




It normally does not take 2-3 seconds for the second loading notice to appear and stay on the screen before the actual image is displayed.

Customize Windows 7 Action Center Alerts

The Microsoft website describes the “Action Center as a central place to view alerts and take actions that can help keep Windows running smoothly”. While this is indeed true and informative for beginning Windows 7 users, in time the alerts can become annoyance. This article aims to explain the Action Center – how to customize the alerts, and even how to completely remove the action center flag from occupying another icon space in the busy task bar 


Click on the flag icon to view the alert details.