new Windows Photos app ruins the "Open With" menu and won't let me open Photos Legacy
Hi, For my work I take a ~couple hundred photos everyday, move them to my PC, and then use the Photos app to pick which photos I want to add to my work reports, right-click the photo to go Open With->Photoshop, then do what I need to do in Photoshop. It's been a very good workflow for me that has not needed any fixing or changes. But then Microsoft pushes a Photos app update that adds an extra step to the "Open With" menu so now it just asks if I want to open photos in File Explorer, Gallery, or ClipChamp (which I don't even have installed) then I have to go to "Choose Another App" THEN it shows me the Choose Another App window that used to open directly with the "Open With" menu that I actually want to see! This is severely irritating and unnecessary and really makes my workflow so much clunkier and worse! Then the instructions to go back to Photos Legacy app by going to Photos settings -> Open Photos Legacy is simply not an option for me. So multi-part feedback here: 1) it was dumb to change the Open With menu at all. 2) It's horrible to give instructions to Open the Legacy App that do not exist in the real software. 3) There was nothing wrong with the original Photos app. 4) I really don't appreciate Microsoft changing things on my PC without my permission or knowledge 5) Then I try to get support for this and am told that there's no way to go back to Photos Legacy if the option doesn't exist in Photos app settings... Long story short, this is yet another time where I've just been forced to abandon Microsoft software that used to be good and go to a third-party software (I've already ditched Office for OpenOffice, gave up doing anything with the XBOX app or GamePass, turn off everything OneDrive and Edge and News and Weather, etc...in this case giving FlyPhotos a shot, immediately it does what I want) and once users do that, they don't come back, not for many years anyway. When will Microsoft get a clue that they can't just always force users to accept their in-app ads, shovelware, and increasingly poor UIs? I've got a spare PC I've set up with a Windows 11/Linux Mint dual boot and my experience with that so far has been W11 is terrible and Linux is quite nice. If Microsoft still tried to make their software/OS good for users instead of using them as platforms for pushing users into whatever they think makes the stock price go up, I would never have reason to discover these entirely worthwhile alternatives to Microsoft!
Windows 10 Photo Bug? - Image Magnification Issues
Hello, Some Context of Problem Due to covid, my assessors have requested that I submit my evidence of coursework as attachments, within a limitation of submitting 15 files. Because some of this evidence has to be screen grabbed, the limitations of copy/pasting them inside a word document would limit the viewable resolution (text heavy therefore lots of small font), as well as word processors default with page breaks, margins etc. Therefore I saved my evidence as .jpgs for reasons explained below. I purchased screen manipulation software https://www.techsmith.com/, to stitch my evidence together to meet the maximum 15 pieces of evidence requirements, whilst also being able to annotate my work, another requirement set by my assessors. Issues With Viewing .jpgs Using Windows 10 Photos When my .jpg files were compiled and completed, I was able to zoom in with the Windows 10 Photos app, and scroll with a high fidelity of resolution, back at the end of June 2021 when I last properly revisited them. However due to waiting for the new academic year, my files could not be reviewed until now (October 2021). It seems Windows 10 Photos can't magnify up to 100% anymore, or view the files zoomed in to the degree I used to, which has prompted my assessors (who are likely using Windows 10 systems also) to be having the same issue (possibly?), but probably assume an caused at my end, and would not know this might be affecting other Windows 10 computers, if it is. May I ask if anyone else is having issues with magnifying .jpgs with Windows 10 Photos, that can't reach 100%, or is anyone aware of a bug with the Photo software? Troubleshooting Using Other Image Viewers I've saved the .jpgs to my Google drive, and can view them at close up without issues using the web image viewer, and have even downloaded software to bring back the previous Windows Photo Viewer (for Windows 7/8), which works fine also. Uninstalling / Reinstalling Photos App I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Photos app also, but to no avail. Perhaps if the app has been updated recently or the past few months, the update has caused this bug to occur (if it is not just me). Lastly This issue will really only be noticeable to others if they have a long or large file .jpg file, which is an unusual method of recording evidence. Thanks for your patience reading this.
