photos app

Hello I installed Windows 8.1 and in phoyo app I want to edit a picture but the edit button is no more in. I was using window 8 and when I opened a photo there were edit crop etc. Now all is disappeared Any clue? Thanks

I took some videos on my iPhone 4S which I wanted to transfer to my Windows 8.1 laptop. I did it in the usual way where I connect it to USB, go into the device on My PC and drag/copy the videos over to another folder. The videos won't play, however. Whenever I try to play them (default through...

Hello, i have a big problem with the photo app. Thing is i don't wanna use it! i hate it! i dont wanna be working on the desktop, and then click on an image and have to go to the app, and then go back and forth between the app and the desktop to work, its annoying and time consuming! what can i...

Searched bu could not find any reference to this. Before upgrading to 8.1 I had a cool Photo Viewer. It was the default viewer so I do not have an app name. When I selected Photos from the main Start screen, there would be 10 to 15 photos on the screen at the same time and different sizes...

Many pictures in several folders of the Photo App appear as gray rectangles. How do see all of them?

Every time I download pictures from my digital camera while in the Desktop mode, the METRO Photo App pops up. I need to manually stop it from Task Manager, but... A few minutes later, I see that METRO Photo App is running again. When I want to save my edited picture, my the computer freezes...

With W7 when I wanted to look at pictures I could just click on an album, enlarge it and look at each picture. Now when I click on a picture, the Picture App comes on and maybe one picture will show, I can't look at any other picture or enlarge one. I can't do anything. It is also hard to return...

Trying to use the Win 8 Photos app to import some photos from an SD Card. I keep getting this vague error. Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? Link Removed

A wee anecdote (w/ a moral): Now, to approach this in my own way & maybe, hopefully put a message across... People often ask me, what's so special about Windows8. OR, "I can't see any reason to want it over what I have" OR "that damned UI & those blasted APPs" OR why is it any better...

By Paul Thurrott Oddly, while the Windows 8 Photos app does use the contents of the Pictures library to display local content, it doesn’t work the same way as the Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps when it comes to determining which network-based content can be displayed. Here’s a guide to what...

Another in the series of Microsoft blogs which takes a closer look at Windows 8 and it's apps: Blog: Link Removed