XnView Software

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That is a good idea. I would use it

Right click on the toolbar and reselect "preview"

Well you can get the utility "Everything" https://www.voidtools.com/
There is a small learning curv (small!) You can do this and save it as a book mark

This is worth having even if it seems to be overkill as it can search all your hard drives almost instantly for ... whatever

Use the "Quck Search" to find ".JPG" and so forth

What happens when you leave the ADMIN account and go back. Is the file now visible in that account also?
It sounds like a refresh issue and the file was there all along. If that is not the case, please check the permissions for the file and the containing folder

Try this with ANY progrm. Portaable and free ... ns amll
control spacebar makes any window stay on top
https://www.labnol.org/software/tutoria ... -top/5213/

It sounds POSSIBLY like a codec issue. You can install a full boat of codecs at
https://www.codecguide.com
Unless you need all the extras (like a video player) get the small basic package
They are free

Right clcik the toolbar and choose "customize"
Then on the top left you will see "new bar"
Move that to the bottom of the right side and start adding items from the left to the righ

I build a new toolbar for use in full screen mode to do exactly that

Settings / browser / Thumbnail and the appearance tab
Is that what you were looking for?

What would be the best way to get around that? I loaded it in Photo, duplicated the layer, deleted the duplicate layer and saved it and that opened it. Also opening it and rasterizing it fixed the issue Stripping out the metadata via XnViews batch converter didn't work. While I didn't try everything...

Please explain a little more what you are trying to do
If you want to keep the program closed and yet view or manipulate photos from Windows explorer then use the shell extension
https://www.xnview.com/en/xnshell/

Thanks for all your effort. You are appreciated

Go into the settings and then Browser / file list / custom filter and start playing around. Uncheck folders and see if you get what you want