

You can use Adobe Photoshop, IrfanView, Photo Retouch, Raw Image Viewer etc. If the image file is of different format, open it in another supporting application. Windows Photo Viewer supports only JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, BMP, DIB, and WDP file formats. Wait until the updates finish and then restart the computer.Check in the box next to the Photo Viewer Click Install Updates.Hey presto, the Photo Viewer background color has changed to blue in the shot above! With alternative hex codes you can switch its background to a variety of colors via the registry. Then Photo Viewer should open the image with an alternative background color as below. If it’s not your default photo viewer software you should right-click the image, select Open With and Windows Photo Viewer. There you select a color, and its hex code is displayed on the left of the site page.Ĭlick OK to close the window, and find an image to open with Photo Viewer. Enter that code in the Value data box, or you could get an alternative color from the ColorPicker website. It is there that you input hexadecimal color values such as FF1092E8 which will change the Photo Viewer background to blue. Double-click BackgroundColor to open the Edit DWORD 32-bit Value window below. You should title the dword BackgroundColor as in the shot above.

Right-click the empty white space to the right, click New and then select DWORD (32-bit) Value. Navigate to the following registry location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\Viewer. Press Win + Run to open Run, and then input regedit to open the registry window below. However, you can still change the Photo Viewer background color with a registry tweak.

Photo Viewer does not have any options that change the background color behind images. The white Windows 7 Photo Viewer background might not always be ideal if the image displayed also has a white background.
