Gallery in Windows 11 file explorer is a waste of time and space. Just leave file explorer alone and allow users to move their files as they see fit. The gallery also encourages more screen time as people search and view pictures.
My problem is the photos in Gallery are in the HEIC format. I am not techie. I used to be able to attach photos from my phone and also Kodak camera to emails and also Craig’s List and other site to sell things. I am at a loss on how to change the format to jpeg. Wish they would just leave well enough alone.
I’m have a minimum internet speed and this Gallery showed up including one drive (I had already deleted some pictures that got placed in one drive by mistake, so the folders were empty but my internet provider told me there was something still going out to the network from my pc and using the bandwidth. I’ve now removed the one drive folder from Gallery and I’ll see if it improves my network performance.
I find Gallery confusing. It seems like a repetition of what I already have in Pictures and Photos which I’ve been dreadfully trying to consolidate. I think Pictures is a newer version of Photos (another confusion). I’m not a techie so don’t feel comfortable using the Command prompt. what’s the fastest and easiest way to get rid of pictures in Gallery?
I just noticed today that my gallery updated, and ALL my folders are gone. Every picture I had filed and catalogued is missing and they are all crammed together and listed by year. This does me no good. A lot of my info was clipart, and the year classification is worthless. I hate this.
I don’t know what the point of Gallery is when I can select my ‘Pictures’ folder with my categorised and catalogued images. I can’t see the point of have a flat folder with 54K images in it.
This is a horrendous new ‘shiny’ Those who dont want to share their every move may think ‘i will delete gallery’. If you delete it deletes all your pictures from your once trusted pictures folder. If recycle gets full it will delete them completely if you are not tech savvy. I lost all my images and even a recovery process just a couple of days later did not recover them all. Before creating these things the kids in charge should consider ‘are there users that dont do or understand back up? do they not use the cloud? is their life of experiences stored in a single picture folder that can be destroyed by one click? There was NO MESSAGE explaining that by deleting Gallery it would also delete from ‘Pictures’
8 Responses to “How to use the Gallery in Windows 11’s File Explorer”
Gallery in Windows 11 file explorer is a waste of time and space. Just leave file explorer alone and allow users to move their files as they see fit. The gallery also encourages more screen time as people search and view pictures.
My problem is the photos in Gallery are in the HEIC format. I am not techie. I used to be able to attach photos from my phone and also Kodak camera to emails and also Craig’s List and other site to sell things. I am at a loss on how to change the format to jpeg. Wish they would just leave well enough alone.
I’m have a minimum internet speed and this Gallery showed up including one drive (I had already deleted some pictures that got placed in one drive by mistake, so the folders were empty but my internet provider told me there was something still going out to the network from my pc and using the bandwidth. I’ve now removed the one drive folder from Gallery and I’ll see if it improves my network performance.
I find Gallery confusing. It seems like a repetition of what I already have in Pictures and Photos which I’ve been dreadfully trying to consolidate. I think Pictures is a newer version of Photos (another confusion). I’m not a techie so don’t feel comfortable using the Command prompt. what’s the fastest and easiest way to get rid of pictures in Gallery?
I just noticed today that my gallery updated, and ALL my folders are gone. Every picture I had filed and catalogued is missing and they are all crammed together and listed by year. This does me no good. A lot of my info was clipart, and the year classification is worthless. I hate this.
I’m sorry for your frustrating experience.
I don’t know what the point of Gallery is when I can select my ‘Pictures’ folder with my categorised and catalogued images. I can’t see the point of have a flat folder with 54K images in it.
This is a horrendous new ‘shiny’ Those who dont want to share their every move may think ‘i will delete gallery’. If you delete it deletes all your pictures from your once trusted pictures folder. If recycle gets full it will delete them completely if you are not tech savvy. I lost all my images and even a recovery process just a couple of days later did not recover them all. Before creating these things the kids in charge should consider ‘are there users that dont do or understand back up? do they not use the cloud? is their life of experiences stored in a single picture folder that can be destroyed by one click? There was NO MESSAGE explaining that by deleting Gallery it would also delete from ‘Pictures’