When you open Default Programs – Set your default programs applet, Windows Photo Gallery entry is displayed with an incorrect icon (showing two gears, which is the default icon for DLL files) instead of the nice looking Windows Photo Gallery icon.
This is because the image preview is handled by Windows Photo Gallery DLL file PhotoViewer.dll. Here is the command-line for the Preview action:
Although this is only a cosmetic issue and can be ignored, I’ve found a way to fix the Windows Photo Gallery icon in Default Programs. The trick is to insert an additional file type in the registry and associating it with WindowsPhotoGallery.exe. The tool below does that exactly.
1. Download WPGIconFix.zip and save to Desktop
2. Unzip the archive and extract the files to a folder
3. Run the file WPGIconFix.exe
4. Click Allow when you see the UAC elevation dialog.
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Hello, My problem is that Windows Photo Gallery has disappeared on my computer. I can still open it by right clicking a photo and using “open with” Windows Photo Gallery, but there is no icon, it’s not in programs and features in the control panel. This also happened with Windows Media Center, but I found help on the net to restore a shortcut, but can’t find how to do this with Photo Gallery. For Media Center I typed this in start bar and it restored icon:
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe
Is there something similar I can do for Photo Gallery?