Windows 10: No 'Preview' function in Right-click Menu...

Can't help noticing the absence of this function in the final release.

It's something I use a lot to view pics, photos etc (they open by default in Photo-Shop, but I
don't want that to happen just to look at a file) and it's a one-click operation to open Windows
Photo Viewer to start a slide-show or do some basic editing.

I can select 'Open With' every time I want to preview, and then select Windows Photo Viewer
but that gets very tiresome very quickly. I can't set it as the default or I then lose the Photo-Shop option when I click 'Open'.

Does anyone have, or know of, a setting or registry mod that I can use to restore the Preview option??? I have looked in the Tutorials section, without success. *Sad *cry


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No Start button function, except on right click. No Edge visible icon on task bar, but it works when empty space is clicked

Hello Erin,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I request you to follow the below steps:

• Open the Task manager. Here’s a tip: Press CTRL+Shift+ESC.
  
• Click File > Run New Task
• Make sure you have a check mark beside “Create this task with administrative privileges”
  
• Type CMD
• Type the following 4 commands at the CMD prompt:
  
  dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
  
  sfc /scannow
  
  powershell
  
  Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
  
• Close the CMD window

I hope this helps you. If you have any further query in future, feel free to contact us. We will be happy to help you.

Thank you.

 

No Start button function, except on right click. No Edge visible icon on task bar, but it works when empty space is clicked

I have no Start button function, except a text menu on right click. This means no tiles, no Start menu, etc. The Microsoft Edge icon, which I had attached to my task bar, is gone, but when I click on the empty space, I go to my HomePage (which is Startpage).
The overall speed of my computer has dropped by at least 20%. This happened overnight, after a clean shut down using the regular power off switch. I woke up to this. From my reading in various online forums, this is a common bug/problem. Why hasn't Microsoft
fixed this? Please reply using the most basic language possible, as I am a basic/home computer user, not a tech of any kind.

 

The Preview feature has been removed; it was part of the Photo Viewer app which is no longer included in Windows 10.

I use the Preview pane in File Explorer, for me it's enough. Setup Preview pane (#1 in screenshot) to see the preview of a selected file (#2), adjust the preview size by resizing the pane (#3):

 

It is still there - use MS Paint to create a TIFF file and it should offer you the option to Preview and open in Photo Viewer. And it's still there for anyone who upgraded; it's only apparently missing if you clean-installed.

There's a registry fix posted on another thread somewhere to make it work with other file formats again.

 

That's good to know David!

I was wrong, Wenda, my apologies for that.

 

Just found it - there's a Tutorial to fix it:
Windows Photo Viewer - Restore in Windows 10

 

THANK YOU!! My computer just upgraded itself from 7 to 10, and the lack of this button was really annoying me. So much appreciated!!