Windows 10: Downloaded photos onto laptop and then opened them individually. After I closed them again...

Downloaded photos onto laptop and then opened them individually. After I closed them again they disappeared from my laptop downloads. Where can I find them?

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Can't open individual photos

I can open my Photos folder and the sub folders but when I try to open an individual photo a pop up says system file error or the media is write protected. Help?!

 

Issue with closing all minimized photos.

I'm using Windows 10 Home, but the issue is the same on my laptop, Windows 10 Pro.

Here is the steps to replicate the issue.

1. Have no photos open.
   
2. Open a single photo.
   
3. Minimize that photo.
   
4. Open a second photo.
   
5. Minimize that photo as well.
   
6. Right click on the photos on the taskbar. Click "Close all windows"
   

Issue is: the photos don't close. You need to open each of the minimized photos, and once the photo pops up, it will immediately close.

I contacted Windows support today and spent literally, 5 hours on support! At the end, and after much troubleshooting, restarting, updating, all those kinds of things. The support agent had told me that a colleague of theirs, or something like that, has the same issue. And that point we knew that it wasn't an issue specific to my machine. The agent told me that they were going to mark the issue as UNRESOLVED, and put the issue up with a supervisor, and then maybe the supervisor would put the issue up to the development team. The agent also told me to come here and post my experiences. So here I am.

 

Photos are opening with Paint instead of Photos app

Hello,

It's likely that your default application for opening photos is Paint. To change your default program in Windows 10 from
Paint to the Photo app, we suggest that you perform the following steps:

• On the Start menu, select Settings.
  
• Go to System, then go to Default apps.
  
• Select Photos or any app that you like to be the default under
  Photo viewer.

Update us if the steps above helped you in resolving your concern.