Install Microsoft Picture Manager in Windows 11

Download SharePoint Designer 2010 from Microsoft Only

There is no Picture Manager download on its own - it was never sold separately. The legitimate free route is the SharePoint Designer 2010 installer (SharePointDesigner.exe), which Microsoft gave away free on the Microsoft Download Center and whose setup still contains Picture Manager inside its Office Tools section.

If the setup offers a choice, the 32-bit installer is the safer pick next to a modern 64-bit Office, because the two generations then stay out of each other's way.

Start the Setup and Click Customize

Run the downloaded setup, accept the licence terms, and on the very first choice screen click Customize - not Install Now.

This one click decides everything: Install Now would drop the whole 2010-era SharePoint Designer suite onto your Windows 11 PC, while Customize lets you pick a single component out of it.

Set Every Component to Not Available

On the customization screen you will see the setup's component tree. Click the small dropdown next to each top-level section - SharePoint Designer itself and every other group - and set them all to Not Available.

That empties the whole install list first, so nothing from 2010 lands on the PC by accident in the next step.

Select Only Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Now expand the Office Tools group and find Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Click its dropdown and choose Run from My Computer. Everything else stays Not Available.

Then click Install Now on that screen and let setup finish - with only one small component to copy, it takes a minute or two.

Open Picture Manager and Check It Works

After setup, open the Start menu and look under Microsoft Office - you should see Microsoft Office Picture Manager. (Its program file is OIS.exe, in the Office14 folder under Microsoft Office.)

Open it, browse to any folder of photos, and check that the thumbnails load and one picture opens full-size. That first successful open matters: a half-finished setup usually shows up right here, not later.

Use It With Open Eyes - It Is a Retired Tool

Picture Manager works on Windows 11 for everyday photos - viewing, cropping, and the batch resize, compress and rename jobs people still miss it for. But be clear about what you installed: a program from the Office 2010 generation whose support ended in 2020. It will never receive another security patch.