Since a recent update, the Microsoft Photos application has become slow to launch. To solve these slowness problems, the Redmond firm plans to run it automatically when Windows starts.
Like many Windows users, you probably use the native Photos application to organize and manage your photo library. It must be said that the utility has undergone many updates in recent months to make it more attractive. Last year, for example, Microsoft added a function to blur the background of an image, or the ability to search for photos stored on OneDrive.
The Redmond firm added other editing tools a few weeks later, to allow you to directly remove the background from your photos. Earlier this year, Microsoft Photos also inherited a magic eraser, a very practical tool powered by AI to remove unwanted elements from an image.
More recently, in the past few weeks, Microsoft developers have rolled out a major update to the Photos app. It no longer uses Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app, but instead uses the Windows App SDK. This choice, made by Microsoft, is supposed to offer better web integration, and above all, better performance. At least, theoretically, because in reality, the picture is a little less rosy.
Microsoft Photos is slow to release
For a few weeks now, the Windows Photo Library seems to have taken a hit. After the recent updates deployed by Microsoft, Photos has been suffering from slowdowns, especially at startup. Windows Latest, which reported the information, estimates that the application takes three times longer to start than before. This is a shame when you consider that the platform change made by Microsoft was supposed to bring stability and speed. According to Windows Latest, these slowness problems are due to the integration of the OneDrive web user interface. The application is apparently slowed down because of numerous calls to the Edge WebView API that monopolize the machine’s resources.
Microsoft is apparently aware of this problem, but has nevertheless found a way to make it easier to swallow. In a new update, the Redmond firm has introduced a new “Performance” button. On our test PC, this patch was even enabled by default. However, it offers nothing other than configuring the Photos application to launch automatically in the background when Windows starts. By preloading Photos when Windows starts, the application will obviously open more quickly when you try to launch it. But your PC may suffer and see its startup time somewhat extended…
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