Remember when Windows used to ship with a no-nonsense photo viewer that just worked? You'd click on an image, it'd open instantly, and you could cycle through your library without your PC grinding to ...

At first glance, the Windows 11 Photos app might seem like a basic photo viewer, but it's packed with features that go far beyond the essentials. While some are well-known, others are tucked away, ...

To fix the Photos app slowing down your Windows 11 PC, try these steps: disable it from startup via Settings or Task Manager, tweak in-app settings to turn off background performance, reset or repair ...

To enable the hidden OCR feature in Windows 11 Photos app, update the app, access the Registry Editor via regedit, load the Photos app settings file, and apply specific registry keys. Once enabled, ...

In the following sections, we will show you how to enable or disable ‘auto-scan images for text’ in the Microsoft Photos app. However, before that, please note that the update is currently released ...

In late October 2024, Microsoft announced a big update for the Photos app for Windows 11 with two new major features: Super Resolution and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). After a month of testing ...