One button decides this whole install. Press Install Now and a complete website editor from 2010 lands on your PC. Press Customize and you can take exactly one component - Picture Manager - and leave everything else behind. This page walks that component tree slowly, so the only thing on your Windows 11 machine afterwards is the little photo tool you actually wanted.
Every guide to reviving Picture Manager says the same sentence: choose Customize, and install only Picture Manager. It is said quickly, but for a first-timer the component tree is the most confusing screen in the whole process - groups inside groups, three kinds of dropdown, and one wrong click installs software from 2010 across your PC. This page slows that screen down: what each choice means, the order to click in, and how to check afterwards that only the one tool came in.
One tool in, everything else out. This single screen is the difference between a clean 2 minute install and a PC full of software from 2010.
The SharePoint Designer 2010 setup opens with two big choices: Install Now and Customize. Install Now means the whole 2010 program - an old website editor, its shared tools and its services - lands on your Windows 11 machine. Almost nobody installing Picture Manager wants any of that. Customize opens the component tree, where every part of the package can be switched on or off individually. Picture Manager is just one small branch of that tree, under Office Tools. The whole trick of this install is using that tree properly.
Start from zero rather than hunting for leftovers:
SharePointDesigner.exe, accept the terms, and click Customize.Working this way means nothing can sneak in: anything you do not personally switch back on does not get installed.
Now open the Office Tools group in the tree. Inside it you will find Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Click its dropdown and select Run from My Computer. Leave its neighbours - the other Office Tools items - set to Not Available; Picture Manager does not need them for viewing, cropping, resizing, compressing or renaming photos. When the tree shows exactly one active component, click Install Now (the button on this screen applies your custom selection, despite its name). Setup finishes quickly because it is copying one small tool, not a suite.
Trust, but verify. After setup completes:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OIS.exe (32-bit install) or the same path without (x86).No harm done - it is fully reversible. Go to Settings, Apps, Installed apps, find Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, and choose Uninstall. Old Office-era setups sometimes offer a Change option instead; inside Change, you can also untick components and keep only Picture Manager. Once the full package is gone, repeat this guide and pick Customize this time. Your photos were never touched either way - uninstalling the tool does not delete a single picture.
See the real Customize tree on screen - which groups to close, which one to open, and the single switch that installs Picture Manager.
▶️ Watch Full VideoIt means the component is copied to your hard drive and runs locally - the normal, correct choice for Picture Manager. The other states either skip the component (Not Available) or install parts of it on first use, which you do not want for this tool.
No. Picture Manager views, crops, resizes, compresses and renames photos on its own. The other Office Tools items are helpers for the old Office suite and add nothing to Picture Manager on a modern PC.
No. The full SharePoint Designer 2010 is old but harmless when simply installed, and it uninstalls cleanly from Settings, Apps, Installed apps. Uninstall it and repeat the install with Customize to keep only Picture Manager.