Browse pictures via File Explorer. Possible in Windows 8?

By kiddingguy
in Microsoft (Windows)

 Share

Recommended Posts

Grand Master

kiddingguy

Posted
Posted

Is it possible to browse pictures by means of the arrow-keys in Windows 8 File Explorer?

So far, I have not found it. It works by importing/placing them into the Pictures-library.

I would like to do this the same way as Windows 7. Putting pictures/photos just somewhere in a folder on my HDD and than using the arrow-keys on my keyboard.

Proficient

dafin0

Posted
Posted

im not to sure what you mean, it seams to act the same as win 7 for me. do you mean when you double click on one picture and it opens photo viewer?

edit: if you just want to know how to open File Explorer then you can ether go to the desktop and click "libraries" at the bottom left hand corner. or in the start screen go to all app and click File Explorer, you can right click it to pin it to the start screen.

hopefully that's what you were wondering :p

Grand Master

kiddingguy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Yes. It opens up Photos (Photo Viewer) and I cannot use the arrow keys to go to the next picture. Picture stays the same.

All from File Explorer on the Desktop that is.

I can use Windows Photo Viewer as default though, but I like the look/full screen of (Windows 8) Photos.

Proficient

dafin0

Posted
Posted

ok yep i think i follow

from what i understand if you want to keep viewing the next photo of that folder you need to basically start from with in the photos app. opening from the desktop to the photos app will only show the picture you have clicked. seams a bit silly to me but that's how it is.

Grand Master

kiddingguy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

ok yep i think i follow

from what i understand if you want to keep viewing the next photo of that folder you need to basically start from with in the photos app. opening from the desktop to the photos app will only show the picture you have clicked. seams a bit silly to me but that's how it is.

Yes. That's the one I'm talking about.

Kinda silly indeed.

I'll just switch to Windows Photo Viewer as default. Thx.

Thx also for the other posts on this matter.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Posts

    • Onkyo Dolby Atmos AV receivers are really solid deals

      By Thiefyo · Posted

      Deal for those who want 1900 size electronics in their house? with 2026/7 hardware mhm.. not nice
    • Why it's almost impossible to produce a smartphone in the United States

      By ad47uk · Posted

      Cheap labour, the same as the U.K. China pays their people pittance.
    • The Trump administration doesn't want you to use OpenAI's GPT-5.6 without its approval

      By ad47uk · Posted

      Those people that come over here on boats are already in a safe country, if they want to come over here then do so correctly though the right channels. I was born in the U.K, my family that came over here came so via the proper means. My partner came here via the correct channels, she also became a British citizen, she knows more about this country than most of them that was born here, including myself, she worked hard to do what she does. She will stick up for this country and have done a few times, when people from her own part of world have put the U.K down. We are not going to agree, all I said to start with is that maybe Trump has the right idea with this America first thing and maybe we should start doing the same. Maybe not as drastic as what he is doing, but we do need to sort this country out, we need to sort out tech instead of relying on the U.S and others. Again you have not shown why you are so annoyed that we have left the E.U and this is what it is all about? If you don't live in the U.K and live in the E.U are you annoyed that we left your little club? If you live in the U.K and is pro-E.U, then fair enough then I can see how it annoys you. Are you one of these people who lives in the U.K and have a holiday chalet in the E.U and can now only stay there for so long? If so, then that is bad luck. As I have posted before, I have no problem with people coming here to work, as long as they do if via the proper channels. We are out of the E.U, people voted out, and maybe if more people had voted instead of sitting on their backsides the results would have been different. But they like the E.U and our government thought no we would not vote to leave. How wrong they were, surprised me. I expected to wake up in the morning and hear on the radio that we voted to stay. As I said, we are out and have been for 10 years, we are not going to go back in anytime soon if we ever do, so we all need to make the best of how things are. Anyway, this is supposed to be a tech site.
    • Why it's almost impossible to produce a smartphone in the United States

      By JohnnyQ55 · Posted

      Tim Cook: "The US over time began to stop having as many vocational kinds of skills." What's the point of wasting time getting those skills if you can't get a job with them? Good Lord, maybe he and his cohort of CEO's who exported all these jobs to China should just shut the f**k up :D
    • The official Funny Pictures thread

      By Steven P. · Posted

  • Recent Achievements

    • Conversation Starter
      jessse3334 earned a badge
      Conversation Starter
    • Reacting Well
      JuvenileDelinquent earned a badge
      Reacting Well
    • One Month Later
      Excellence2025 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Excellence2025 earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Week One Done
      flexorcist earned a badge
      Week One Done

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      502
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      215
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      150
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      74
    5. 5
      macoman
      62
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!