Changing Photo Gallery Default startup mode

I am using Windows Photo Gallery as a simple image viewer. When I
double-click on an image from Explorer, Photo Gallery starts up assuming I
want to be able to scroll through all images in the folder. It therefore
takes a long time to start, as it builds a list of all images in the folder
(and that can take a long time if the folder is remote and has a lot of
images).

If I really want to be able to scroll through every image, I can do Ctrl_A
before the double click.

At the moment I have to select two images and then double-click in order to
get Photo Gallery to display the image promptly.

Is there some way I can configure Photo Gallery (or the double click
command) to not build the list, so that it starts as quiclkly when one image
is selected as it does with two?