{"id":25476,"date":"2022-01-03T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=25476"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:19:04","slug":"error-windows-photo-viewer-cant-display-this-picture-no-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/error-windows-photo-viewer-cant-display-this-picture-no-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"[Fix] Error “Windows Photo Viewer can’t display this picture”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you try to preview an image file (JPEG\/PNG) using Windows Photo Viewer, the preview would be blank and the following error message is displayed:<\/p>\n

Windows Photo Viewer can't display this picture because there might not be enough memory available on your computer. Close some programs that you aren't using or free some hard disk space (if it's almost full), and then try again.<\/pre>\n
\"windows<\/p>\n
It’s a misleading error message, as in most cases, it may not have anything to do with the system memory. The Windows Photo Viewer error is caused due to color profile metadata (ICC_Profile<\/code>) embedded into the JPG image(s).<\/p>\n
(You can reproduce the issue by transferring images from your Android\/iOS mobile and previewing the image using Windows Photo Viewer on your computer. A<\/em>nother possibility is that your system has multiple video cards and the issue happens on the secondary graphics card only. Switching over to the primary video card may resolve the error.)<\/em><\/p>\n
However, other utilities like IrfanView, GIMP, or the built-in\/modern Photos app<\/a> would be able to open the image correctly.\u00a0This issue is limited to Windows Photo Viewer<\/a> (and perhaps Windows Live Photo Gallery<\/a>) only.<\/p>\n
RELATED:<\/strong> [Fix] WebP Images Appear Very Dark in Windows Photo Viewer<\/a><\/div>\n
[Fix] Error “Windows Photo Viewer can’t display this picture”<\/h2>\n
To resolve the error “Windows Photo Viewer can’t display this picture”, follow these steps:<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. Launch the Color Control Panel applet by running colorcpl.exe<\/code> from the Run dialog. Alternately, you can open the classic Control Panel, All Control Panel Items, and click Color Management<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. In the Devices tab, select each ICC profile and click on the Remove button. Remove every profile listed on that page.
    \n\"windows<\/li>\n
  3. When you see the “This color profile is the default profile for this device. Are you sure you want to disassociate it from the device?” message, click Continue<\/strong>.
    \n\"windows<\/li>\n
  4. Next, click on the Advanced tab.
    \n\"windows<\/li>\n
  5. Select “Agfa: Swop Standard<\/strong>” from the Device profile dropdown list box. This is the most important<\/strong> step!\n
    (Selecting the system default setting “System default (sRGB IEC61966-2.1)<\/strong>” is the root cause for the error in Windows Photo Viewer.)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  6. Click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    You should now be able to preview the JPEG files successfully!<\/p>\n
    RELATED:<\/strong> Windows Photo Viewer Shows Yellow Tint Background When Previewing Images<\/a><\/div>\n
    Workaround<\/h2>\n
    Selecting the “Agfa: Swop Standard” profile ought to fix the issue in most cases. In case you don’t want to change the default device profile, there is a workaround for you.<\/p>\n
    The trick is to delete the ICC_Profile metadata selectively from each JPEG image file. To do so, you can rely on the third-party utility named ExifTool, or the ExifToolGUI tool.<\/p>\n
    ExifToolGUI<\/h3>\n
    ExifToolGUI is a front-end for the ExifTool command-line tool. ExifToolGUI needs the ExifTool.exe command-line tool in the same folder in order to run correctly.<\/p>\n
    Here are the download links for both:<\/p>\n
    Latest ExiftoolGUI version 5.16:\r\nhttps:\/\/exiftool.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=2750.0\r\n\r\nExifTool by Phil Harvey:\r\nhttps:\/\/exiftool.org\/<\/pre>\n
    Start ExifToolGUI and select the folder\/file (multiple selections of files are allowed). Note that the ICC_Profile<\/code> metadata is visible for the chosen file, in the right pane.<\/p>\n
    \"exiftool<\/p>\n
    Click on the Modify<\/strong> menu, and click Remove metadata…<\/strong><\/p>\n
    Select “-ICC Profile”<\/strong> checkbox (only) and click Execute.<\/p>\n
    \"exiftool<\/p>\n
    That’s it. The ICC_Profile color space metadata is now stripped off from the selected JPG file(s).<\/p>\n
    \"exiftool<\/p>\n
    Here’s the comparison of file metadata before and after stripping the ICC color space information.<\/p>\n
    ::BEFORE::<\/strong>\r\n\r\n---- File ----\r\nFile Name : 20211203_111045.jpg\r\nDirectory : .\r\nFile Size : 920 KiB\r\nFile Modification Date\/Time : 2022:01:03 17:08:30+05:30\r\nFile Access Date\/Time : 2022:01:03 18:12:28+05:30\r\nFile Creation Date\/Time : 2022:01:03 17:08:30+05:30\r\nFile Permissions : -rw-rw-rw-\r\nFile Type : JPEG\r\nFile Type Extension : jpg\r\nMIME Type : image\/jpeg\r\nExif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)\r\nImage Width : 1681\r\nImage Height : 1261\r\nEncoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding\r\nBits Per Sample : 8\r\nColor Components : 3\r\nY Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)\r\n---- EXIF ----\r\nImage Width : 1681\r\nCamera Model Name : SM-A315F\r\nImage Height : 1261\r\nMake : samsung\r\nDate\/Time Original : 2021:12:03 11:10:45\r\nLight Source : Unknown\r\nOrientation : Rotate 90 CW\r\nModify Date : 2021:12:03 11:10:45\r\n---- JFIF ----\r\nJFIF Version : 1.01\r\nResolution Unit : None\r\nX Resolution : 1\r\nY Resolution : 1\r\n---- ICC_Profile ----<\/strong>\r\nProfile CMM Type : <\/strong>\r\nProfile Version : 2.1.0<\/strong>\r\nProfile Class : Display Device Profile<\/strong>\r\nColor Space Data : RGB<\/strong>\r\nProfile Connection Space : XYZ<\/strong>\r\nProfile Date Time : 0000:00:00 00:00:00<\/strong>\r\nProfile File Signature : acsp<\/strong>\r\nPrimary Platform : Unknown ()<\/strong>\r\nCMM Flags : Not Embedded, Independent<\/strong>\r\nDevice Manufacturer : <\/strong>\r\nDevice Model : <\/strong>\r\nDevice Attributes : Reflective, Glossy, Positive, Color<\/strong>\r\nRendering Intent : Media-Relative Colorimetric<\/strong>\r\nConnection Space Illuminant : 0.9642 1 0.82491<\/strong>\r\nProfile Creator : <\/strong>\r\nProfile ID : 0<\/strong>\r\nProfile Description : sRGB<\/strong>\r\nRed Matrix Column : 0.43607 0.22249 0.01392<\/strong>\r\nGreen Matrix Column : 0.38515 0.71687 0.09708<\/strong>\r\nBlue Matrix Column : 0.14307 0.06061 0.7141<\/strong>\r\nRed Tone Reproduction Curve : (Binary data 40 bytes, use -b option to extract)<\/strong>\r\nGreen Tone Reproduction Curve : (Binary data 40 bytes, use -b option to extract)<\/strong>\r\nBlue Tone Reproduction Curve : (Binary data 40 bytes, use -b option to extract)<\/strong>\r\nMedia White Point : 0.9642 1 0.82491<\/strong>\r\nProfile Copyright : Google Inc. 2016<\/strong>\r\n---- Composite ----\r\nImage Size : 1681x1261\r\nMegapixels : 2.1\r\n\r\n\r\n::AFTER::<\/strong>\r\n\r\n---- File ----\r\nFile Name : 20211203_111045.jpg\r\nDirectory : .\r\nFile Size : 919 KiB\r\nFile Modification Date\/Time : 2022:01:03 18:15:27+05:30\r\nFile Access Date\/Time : 2022:01:03 18:35:20+05:30\r\nFile Creation Date\/Time : 2022:01:03 17:08:30+05:30\r\nFile Permissions : -rw-rw-rw-\r\nFile Type : JPEG\r\nFile Type Extension : jpg\r\nMIME Type : image\/jpeg\r\nExif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)\r\nImage Width : 1681\r\nImage Height : 1261\r\nEncoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding\r\nBits Per Sample : 8\r\nColor Components : 3\r\nY Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)\r\n---- EXIF ----\r\nImage Width : 1681\r\nCamera Model Name : SM-A315F\r\nImage Height : 1261\r\nMake : samsung\r\nDate\/Time Original : 2021:12:03 11:10:45\r\nLight Source : Unknown\r\nOrientation : Rotate 90 CW\r\nModify Date : 2021:12:03 11:10:45\r\n---- JFIF ----\r\nJFIF Version : 1.01\r\nResolution Unit : None\r\nX Resolution : 1\r\nY Resolution : 1\r\n---- Composite ----\r\nImage Size : 1681x1261\r\nMegapixels : 2.1\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
    \n
    ExifTool<\/h3>\n
    If you don’t want an extra GUI tool for the task, you can run the ExifTool command-line tool itself to accomplish the task.<\/p>\n
    You use the following syntax to remove the ICC_Profile<\/code> metadata for a file.<\/p>\n
    exiftool -ICC_Profile=\u00a0 D:\\Photos\\MyPhoto.jpg<\/pre>\n
    You can also execute the tool on all JPEG files in a folder by using wildcard.<\/p>\n
    exiftool -ICC_Profile=\u00a0 D:\\Photos\\*.jpg<\/pre>\n
    \"exiftool<\/p>\n
    That’s it! ExifTool is an excellent tool that lets you strip off specific metadata without erasing the other useful meta information such as Date, Camera, GeoTagged data, etc.<\/p>\n
    Adobe Photoshop user?<\/h4>\n
    If you’re a Photoshop user, to strip off the ICC_Profile metadata, you can open the image in Photoshop and save it with another name. In the Save as dialog, make sure to uncheck the “ICC Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1<\/strong>” option when saving the JPG file with Photoshop. This makes the JPEG file compatible with Windows Photo Viewer.<\/p>\n
    Note that the Windows Spotlight images<\/a> don’t have the ICC color profile metadata attached to them; most of the metadata including the Camera information is stripped. However, some Spotlight images may have the location information<\/a> intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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