Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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salsaespresso
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Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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Running Windows 10 and XYplorer 20.50.

Left/right works when loading images from the default Windows explorer, but the arrows are not present and left/right does not work when loading from XYplorer. It's like Windows Photos cannot see the album as a whole when loading images from XYplorer. Any ideas?

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Re: Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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Yes, this indeed stopped working in Windows 10. Cannot fix that, it's a Windows 10 bug. I suggest you use XYplorer's Floating Preview (F11) instead.

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Re: Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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Another solution via a Portable File Association:
"Windows Photo Viewer" {:Image}>::run """%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe"" ""%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll"", ImageView_Fullscreen <curitem>";
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Re: Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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Is there any way to keybind Floating Preview to double click or middle click when opening an image file?

Also that script did nothing as it says " is not a valid script command.

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Re: Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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Add this to Tools | Customize File Associations...

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"Floating Preview" bmp;jpg;jpeg;gif;png> #178;
FYI, #178 is the internal command index for File | Floating Preview (F11).

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Re: Left/right does not work in Windows Photos after loading image from album with XYplorer

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Also that script did nothing as it says " is not a valid script command.
It works fine once copied and pasted correctly:

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"Windows Photo Viewer" {:Image}>::run """%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe"" ""%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll"", ImageView_Fullscreen <curitem>";
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