Windows Photo Gallery

Windows Photo Gallery is an image gallery and organizer application, first introduced in Windows Vista. It's based on the Microsoft Digital Image Library program, with additional features such as adjustments and a slideshow bar which would later be seen in Windows Photo Viewer, it's degraded successor.

The first build to include this program is Windows Vista build 5212, however the references of Microsoft Digital Image Library are widely around the app.

The app would later be degraded into Windows Photo Viewer in the early pre-release versions of Windows 7, however "Windows Live Photo Gallery" is the true successor of Windows Photo Gallery. It's last version is Windows Photo Gallery 2012, later in 2017 this app would be discontinued with the rest of the Windows Live Essentials suite. You can still run this in the newest versions of Windows 10, as Microsoft offered compatibility of it.

This wouldn't be the first and the last time a native image gallery app existed in Windows since Windows 8 introduced the Photos app, which still exists to this day.