There are several photo repair software available online. In such a case, try out a photo repair software because your photo is most likely corrupt, due to which it is showing the error.
But now you can at least view them in the program. However, this method will compress the large-sized high-resolution photos. This will fix the ‘ Windows Photo Viewer can’t open this picture’ problem.
When an image file format is not supported by Windows Photo Viewer, you can convert the file to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG which can be viewed in Windows Photo Viewer. You can use Adobe Photoshop, IrfanView, Photo Retouch, Raw Image Viewer etc. If the image file is of different format, open it in another supporting application. Windows Photo Viewer supports only JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, BMP, DIB, and WDP file formats.