Windows Photos app vs Photo Viewer

FoxEye · 4 Sep 2015 at 00:23

OK, this one is borderline retarded.

You know how in Photo Viewer you could: open a folder, click one picture to open it, then use left,right arrow keys to move to the next,previous picture?

You can't do that in "Photos", the new Win10 app.

You now have to: open folder, select all (ctrl-a), right click, open.

If you just click one picture, you cannot navigate to another picture in that folder inside Photos. So you'd have to close Photos, then click the next picture.

Who at MS is responsible for taking things that worked in previous versions, then making them worse? It's a pretty cushy job if you can get it.

Sighn · 4 Sep 2015 at 03:56

I've not had this problem. Photos has worked perfectly fine for me.

melvis · 4 Sep 2015 at 07:56

i beleive this was a change made so that when the images in question are marked as 'hidden' in explorer properties it wont open the next one automatically, if you bulk select the images and turn off hidden it should work again

FoxEye · 4 Sep 2015 at 10:24

None of them are hidden. I found out it's a bug.

It does this in some folders but not others. If I make a new folder somewhere else and move all the photos to it, it works again.

russell664 · 4 Sep 2015 at 16:48

I just use Picasa in Windows 10 now, and remove the crappy 'Photos' app, it is rated 2 starts on the Windows store haha.

Ice Globe · 4 Sep 2015 at 18:50

I had this issue immediately after upgrading, I thought Microsoft had gone bonkers!

Fortunately since doing a clean install I don't seem to suffer the issue any further.

andy_mk3 · 4 Sep 2015 at 20:30

It's crap. I downloaded Windows Photo Viewer.

FoxEye · 4 Sep 2015 at 22:38

Ice Globe said:
I had this issue immediately after upgrading, I thought Microsoft had gone bonkers!

There's a good chance they have

Apparently organising your photos into folders is now the "old way".

The "new way" they're pushing is to use the 'collections' and 'albums' feature of Photos to organise your photos. It goes out and searches your whole disk and then ~~conveniently~~ pointlessly groups them together by date taken.

It's like they had a bunch of devs and wanted to put them to use reinventing the wheel.

martin9887 · 5 Sep 2015 at 00:21

Haven't had this issue, works perfect for me. I don't understand all the hate for the new viewer, been fine for me since upgrading.

Sighn · 5 Sep 2015 at 00:33

martin9887 said:
Haven't had this issue, works perfect for me. I don't understand all the hate for the new viewer, been fine for me since upgrading.

Yeah. I've tried to recreate the issue too. I'm not sure what the problem is. Nevertheless my default viewer for years is Ifranview. I've configured mine to work just like Windows Photo Viewer.

Whoop · 5 Sep 2015 at 09:00

Windows Photo Viewer never left, it is in the Windows 10 FAQ how to turn it back on...

But to save you searching -

This reg edit will re-add "Photo Viewer" like in windows 7 and 8 to the default options for photo files! This will allow you to open them inside the desktop rather than being thrown into pictures.
https://mega.co.nz/#!WMU13Cxa!cZK2Z0...M7iaHgwo8GnZO4

How to use

1) Run and let it add the registry entries
2) Right click a photo and change the default application to photo viewer
3) Profit

I just did that and forgot the new app

FoxEye · 5 Sep 2015 at 19:05

martin9887 said:
Haven't had this issue, works perfect for me. I don't understand all the hate for the new viewer, been fine for me since upgrading.

If it worked perfectly for me, I wouldn't hate it either

Surely that's not hard to understand.

Nick1881 · 7 Sep 2015 at 08:59

Whoop said:
Windows Photo Viewer never left, it is in the Windows 10 FAQ how to turn it back on...

But to save you searching -

I just did that and forgot the new app

I tried that and it didn't work for me. I managed to get it back using Winaero Tweaker.

Ice Globe · 17 Oct 2015 at 20:14

I've just been previewing some photos I've processed and noticed Windows 10 completely over sharpens and destroys them!

Bring back my old photo viewer!!

Sighn · 18 Oct 2015 at 00:45

Ice Globe said:
I've just been previewing some photos I've processed and noticed Windows 10 completely over sharpens and destroys them!

Bring back my old photo viewer!!

Set autofix to disabled.

nightmare99 · 18 Oct 2015 at 12:12

Left/right arrow keys is working for me so perhaps they have fixed it now.

Ice Globe · 18 Oct 2015 at 12:17

Sighn said:
Set autofix to disabled.

Thanks, found the option, you have to open the Photos app/program rather than a single photo using the software, then it's under the settings within the app.

Unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem though.

The issue only seems to happen when I zoom in on a photo, and then back out to its full extent, it retains any sharpening it did on the zoom and just looks terrible on full extent. Presumably a bug or memory issue.

Credo · 19 Oct 2015 at 12:55

I wish the photo importing was like Windows 7, where it could import into date/time named folders in a specified location. 90% of what I do is import Nikon DSLR RAW files in for processing in Lightroom, and this worked great for me. Have to do it manually now.