Windows 10: Why did you remove the silde show options for individual folders?

How can I watch a slide show of photos in ONE folder on ONE drive, without adding them to the Photo App? When trying to use the Photos app, the moment I select an external drive, it tries to load 10s of thousands of photos, without giving the option to select an individual folder or subfolder. No one should have to add photos to some list, or app, or move them to other folders, or anything else. This should be accomplished at the folder and subfolder level, not by going into some app. In Windows 10 one opened a folder in explorer regardless of its location, selected one photo and hit the Slid

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Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

View>list folder option doesn't stick to all folders


In a folder, when I do View>list and then in Options apply that to all folders, it often doesn't stick, i.e some sub folders under that folder show the details view. Any suggestions?

In fact it looks like all new folders are defaulting to details view.

 

Windows 10, How to Set Folder Viewing Options Individually?

I have quite a few folders on my Desktop, to group frequently-used items, like shortcuts to programs or tools and documents. I wish to apply viewing options for each folder individually, more specifically do not display the Toolbar and the Navigation Pane, just having the items displayed as (in most cases) Large Icons.

The problem is that these settings appear to affect ALL folders, and even the "File Explorer" (if run as a program), ie this seems to be a global setting, and can become very cumbersome and counterproductive.

Searched quite a bit, and rather confirmed that the feature was removed or disabled, maybe already since Win7 (didn't use Win7 much, changed from XP to 8.0/8.1 almost directly, and then upgraded to 10). Here is what i found:

List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia

Redirecting

Windows Explorer view options for individual folders

So there's no solution as it seems, but a user in the last link suggests modifying the registry, however this is for Windows 7.

Could someone with a good insight shed some light here please?

Thank you in advance