donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

My computer has been running much more sluggishly lately and I'm thinking it's perhaps using resources to create albums from the 10's of thousands of images I've taken over the years. I don't WANT it to create albums for me.

Does anyone know how I can tell it to cease and desist?

Thanks in advance for the knowledge you're all about to impart to me. (-:

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

Use Windoze 7! :lol: (sorry, I don't have knowledge on 10)

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Donna, I've no knowledge of Windoze 10. However, I did a search and found a possible answer.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/apps_windows_10-photos/is-there-any-way-to-disable-the-windows-10-photo/ce616a54-7ce0-44e3-8d47-d56589fc3743?page=1&auth=1

--Bob

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

You rock, Bob! I asked Cortana for the Windows Power Shell where I pasted in Get-AppxPackage *photo* | Remove-AppxPackage and Voila! the albums are GONE!

I was a bit demoralized as I read all the responses saying that there was no way to make them disappear but decided to try this one response and it worked!

Thanks again! I want to be the one in charge of my OWN images!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Donna, you're quite welcome. I'm glad that worked. I agree with you. I want to be the one in charge of what gets created in my computer.
--Bob

OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

Thanks. I could have used that months ago when it kept bugging me to upgrade. But I'm ok now that it's not constantly creating albums I never asked for.

Kuzano

I have to thank you profusely for getting an answer to your question here on UHH.

I have been frustrated and annoyed by that same question. I use either File Explorer or Windows Live Photo Gallery for image management, including tags and key words.

Windows 10 has polished those aspects of file management extensively (that for the 10 haters out there)

The Photos live tile in Windows 10 has been both hard to use, and bogging down my machine to stall. Real RAM hog, whereas the Windows Photo Gallery is fast and more visually usable instead.

Now that the Photos Tile is gone, and presumably the app as well, I am pleased again. I hate an app that I cannot master.

All this points to the fact that, Yes, Windows 10 is still stumbling over itself in minor ways, but I still think it is the greatest Windows version ever. And that's after teaching 22 years of Microsoft Windows at the Community Ed level Community College.

I still rely on my classes to enhance my own knowledge base, and resolving questions such as yours is part of the growth in teaching better. I am happy that you allowed someone to resolve your question here on UHH, and that I caught it also.

Asking the question on various forums is certainly a better tactic than reverting back to previous versions of Windows, or heaven forbid, switch to MAC/apple or linux and never know the full power of Windows. Persist.

Now from you, I just resolved a personal problem for myself, PLUS I just learned a lesson or solution that I need to fold into my Windows 10 Demo class next Tuesday.

The moral, Don't hate 10. Know that it is flexible and fixes are generally a persistent question away.

After 22 years of teaching Windows, I will say that the work that has gone into Windows 10, and the immediacy of getting problems solved and questions answered is the best I have ever encountered from Microsoft.

Give it a chance.

It's been a week of breakthroughs for me. I just did a clean install with a USB installer, that I created from the Media Creation Tool. I was successful in loading a newly formatted SSD drive with Windows 10 AND getting it authenticated with the Windows 7 key on the tag on my Samsung laptop.

The install with the Media Creation Tool, rather than an online upgrade, cut the time immensely, and gave me a truly clean Windows 10 with no potentially crippling previous software on the machine from pre-upgrade.

Again, thanks.

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

I'm happy that someone else benefitted from my question and the resulting answer, Kuzano. I also got a private message asking where I see these albums that I thought I'd answer publicly so that all will know. I actually probably wouldn't have noticed them for quite some time except I kept getting notices in the bottom right corner of my screen telling me that another album had been created for me! It took a while for me to respond in time to click on that notice but when I did I was appalled to see about 15 albums had already been created. They show up on what I think is the start page (you click on the Windows icon) and you'll see an icon that says "Photos". At least I think that's what it said. Since I've managed to rid Win 10 of this it's no longer there.

I don't think it matters but I upload all my images thru Lightroom. Lately that has been acting funky so I may change my method of operation but I don't think it has to do with Win 10.

lhbpe Loc: North Carolina

What is really interesting is that a Microsoft Support Engineer said that there is no way to stop Windows 10 from making albums, but a user found at least two ways to stop it.

Kuzano

I once actually contacted Microsoft Support, (some years ago) and my incident call was escalated (while I was on the phone) three times until I was turned over to a "mentor" in support.

I think that speaks to the lower level of support on entering the support system. Have never used telephone support since. I always, however, use live chat support, where you open a window and type your information in. A live support person is assigned, and those questions get answered, as they are able to do research, while you are on hold. They keep you advised that they are working on the problems.

Many support systems now do this, and my preference is to use Live Chat for support. They usually follow up with a printed copy of both sides of the conversation.

With Windows 10, this app is the PHOTOS tile on the start screen. If you right click on any of the tiles you get a number of options for size, turn live streaming on or off, or uninstall.

However, the PHOTOS tile does not have an option to uninstall, so this is clearly where the Windows Powershell comes in. You would have to know the command line to do the uninstall, which was the line that was typed in at the C:\ prompt in Powershell.

The Powershell app seems to be more of a technical person or support type app as it works from DOS Prompts.

Just glad to find out it's there for future reference and possible use.

The PHOTOS tile disappeared from the tiles section of the START menu, as soon as I opened Powershell, and ran the command line.

As far as looking for the PHOTOS tile, take it from the OP and myself, it is NOT IN THE LEAST a functional management tool, and I put it in the class POS Software. Better gone.

I could not find a way to use it to manage files and folders. It is a viewer on the folder structure in your Pictures Library and pretty worthless otherwise. Just don't open that tile. I have so many pictures in my compute in Libraries that it PHOTOS tile was locking my computer and I had to do hard shut downs to get out of it.

I am a strong supporter of Windows 10, but it's a massive project. It has a few flaws. The Photos tile is presently one of those.

The regular File Explorer, possibly enhanced with third party software, like Faststone Image Viewer, may be good.

However, as mentioned before, I get all my file management, including tags, key words, and searches done with Windows 10 File Explorer and Windows Live Photo Gallery. All of it.

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

I use external hard drive for all my photo files and work, not thing in my computer hard drive. I open them with Windows Photo Viewer as default, so the W-10 can not make any file from them. I also copy images from my camera memory card to the external drive directly. This works fine for me.

OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

Your quite welcome, yes it becomes annoying.

BTW, I've heard tell about MS's resolve...why would they put out a "get rid of win 10 pop ups" when they are trying to push the new OS. Just sayin.

skyray Loc: Miami

I gave in to Microsoft's constant harping to upgrade and ended up being locked out of my computer for five days. My experience during the five days was that "Microsoft Support Engineers" are essentially useless. They all had trouble understanding that without my computer I was locked out of my email and couldn't use a browser. It seems that I was locked out of my computer because the "upgrade" changed my computer password to my Microsoft account number and I did not have a Microsoft account and consequently had no clue what it had been changed to. To add injury to insult they wouldn't believe I was who I said I was unless I responded to an email I couldn't access or accessed a URL that I couldn't access without a computer. A technician at my service provider finally resolved the problem, but Microsoft was exceptionally unhelpful.

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

Having Windows 10, I've not had any files created that I know of. Who can I see if it has?