If you’ve been using Picasa 3 for some time you either love or dislike the new Picasa Photo Viewer. The Picasa photo viewer was intended as a replacement for Windows built-in picture viewer. Whether the Windows Picture viewer or the Picasa Photo Viewer is preferred is a question of taste, either way I have highlighted the instructions on enabling and disabling this feature. If you have any comments or questions, please post them below.
We’ve decided to retire Picasa in order to focus on a single photo service in Google Photos – a new, smarter photo app that works seamlessly across mobile and the web. Where can I find my photos? If you have photos or videos in a Picasa Web Album, the easiest way to still access, modify and share most of that content is to log in to Google. Picasa 3.9 is available as a free download on our software library. According to the users’ comments, the benefits of this tool are: it has an easy-to-use interface and is fast. The following versions: 3.9, 3.8 and 3.6 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users. You can execute it on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10 32-bit.
Note: I used Picasa 3 installed on Windows Vista.
1. Click on the Orb (Start button) and click on All Programs (Start > Program Files in Windows XP)
2. Click on Picasa 3 > Configure Picasa Photo Viewer
3. When the Configure Picasa Photo Viewer window opens, you have two options;
A. To Enable/Configure Picasa Photo Viewer click on Use Picasa Photo Viewer as the default viewer of these file types: (Specify file types by adding a checkmark next to the file format desired), click OK.
B. To Disable Photo Viewer click on Don’t use Picasa Photo Viewer, click OK