mightywarrior

Yes that is what I went with. Just asked if it is only me who is facing this hehe.

Nothing in chrome extension. Will run a malware test. Thanks.

Cheers to everyone for your answers. I will try the other options as well. Right now will go with Windows Photo Viewer though. It is my favourite.

Oh yeah that is my favourite. Works great. Thanks. Although Did you find option of setting it as default in Windows Settings> Default Apps. Windows Photo Viewer isn't visible there. See the screenshot. Although I am okay with setting it as default for each format separately.

Yes I am using AVG free antivirus. However I cannot find any option inside it to disable that. Are you sure AVG is causing this issue? Na nothing of that sort. Just for privacy reasons. Moreover this box appears frequently. I could have searched anything of my choice and posted hehe. "X" closes it but only temporarily.

The title suggests the question itself. I don't care about backup options or editing stuff. I only want a decent image viewer with brilliant appearance.

Whenever I search on chrome, this unknown additional search box appears. After that whatever I type, it goes directly to this box rather than the original search box. Searching on this takes to something like "play.com" which later redirects to yahoo search. Help me to get rid of this. I have tried everything from clearing adware to reinstalling chrome. Nothing worked as of yet. Cheers.