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Microsoft integrates photo gallery directly into Windows 11 File Explorer

With Windows 11, Microsoft has worked hard to improve its file explorer. It recently received an update that provided it with the long-awaited tabs like in web browsers, a very practical feature long requested by users.

Now we learn that Microsoft is developing a photo gallery tool, which is integrated directly into the file explorer. This can be seen in Windows 11 Insider Preview build 25300, which has been available for a few days now. It is not active by default, but it is possible to make it appear by following some changes in the Windows registry and using the ViVeTool configuration utility.

It’s long been possible to view your photos in File Explorer by selecting the appropriate icon view option, but Windows only offers thumbnails. This is quite a different feature: a real gallery that you can browse much more efficiently, with photos that are no longer displayed as icons.

We imagine that Microsoft wants to improve the experience here for mobile devices equipped with a touch screen running Windows, but desktop users should also be able to benefit from this new feature.

Windows 11 File Explorer with integrated gallery?

The source of this news explains that the gallery in question has a timeline scroll bar, various configuration options and an integrated search function. However, it’s still in the testing phase and its development isn’t finished yet, so it’s not likely that we’ll see it deployed to a stable version of Windows 11 in the coming months.

We hope that this gives Microsoft time to improve this novelty and enrich it, why not the possibility of doing a search by description thanks to artificial intelligence, the new workhorse of the company from Redmond.

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