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Image Viewer that "keeps" explorer sort options


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hello everyone,

i've been trying to switch to an image viewer alternative to the standard microsoft fax and picture viewer, but i cannot find one with the only "feature" that i'm really looking for.

I've tried Faststone, Infranview, XNview, and ACDsee32 and cannot find one that does this. What i'm looking for is a viewer, that when given the file associations for all of my image filetypes, will open and allow for left/right browsing through the directory in the SAME ORDER that i have my pictures sorted in explorer...

sounds confusing i know, but here is my example.

i have family photos arranged in folders and named birthday1, birthday2, birthday3, etc. when i open these in any of the apps, i'm able to scroll through with left right mouse buttons or scroll wheel and it goes through them in that order (the same way they are sorted in explorer).

however i have a downloads folder where i download all of my internet content. this usually consists of many photos with very diff. filenames. i have this folder sorted in explorer by date modified, so the newest pics are at the top. When i open these in an image viewer, it scrolls these photos by name (which is NOT the explorer sort option, rather the specific program's sort order).

if ANYONE knows what i'm talking about / dealing with, PLEASE provide feedback. this is driving me absolutely crazy. thanks all.

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hey guys thanks for the replies.

dexter, i'm really interested in your idea although i have pretty much no clue what you're talking about.

as far as the windows live "updated" picture and fax viewer, i couldn't even get it to install... the installer told me that it "could not complete" or something to that nature and said please try again later. the fact that windows live gallery is trying to connect to the web during its install already makes me hesitant to try it out.

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Yeah, that happened to me when I tried to install when it first came out (Windows Live Photo Gallery) but I believe it's a well documented and easily fixed issue, rec_kris. As far as during normal usage, I've never noticed it to connect to the web. It might be that you have the web installer instead of the full version and it's attempting to acquire additional components.

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