In such a case, try out a photo repair software because your photo is most likely corrupt, due to which it is showing the error.

Updating Windows Photo Viewer or converting to another file format didn’t help.Unable to open in Windows Photo Viewer and other applications.

Repair image with a Photo Repair Software But now you can at least view them in the program. However, this method will compress the large-sized high-resolution photos. This will fix the ‘ Windows Photo Viewer can’t open this picture’ problem. When an image file format is not supported by Windows Photo Viewer, you can convert the file to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG which can be viewed in Windows Photo Viewer. 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.

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