As far as time goes, if you're going to view the image, you must start the program in either case, so I have a hard time seeing how it could be faster to start Explorer, find your image, then start a program to view, compared with starting the program in the first place.
Hi Jim
I think that you may be assuming that everyone uses only MC all the time.
Again, I would often have shortcuts on my desktop to certain folders. Here is a senario...
I would not specifically be planning on viewing any specific image. I'd be for example in a folder with work documents (eg. word , application files , etc ) , just busy working or browsing ( and I don't mean browsing image files ).
Then, as an example, there might be an image file (jpeg) which would be a "screenshot" that I then only, at that moment, decide that I want to view it. Remember that at this point I am not in MC.
I am not actually busy playing or organizing audio or image files.But now when I double-click (NB. I am outside MC) the "screenshot" (which I'm using as an example) , and if I have associated all my image files with MC, then the whole process of opening the whole MC, closing the fullscreen display, and then still closing MC, has to take place.
If I was in that same situation, and my image files are not associated with MC ( Which obviously I'd like them to be) , then all that would happen is that Windows Picture and Fax viewer would open, and then I'd click close...and it would be gone,immediately back to where I was, In Windows.
As I mentioned before, Windows Picture and Fax viewer
also allows me to move through all the images within that specific folder (
in which I spontaneously wanted to view an image) using the forward and back arrow keys,
while browsing in windows. If I was in windows, in the same situation, and double-clicking opened my image with MC fullscreen Viewer, ... then the MC fullscreen viewer only allows me to view that one specific image in that folder. If I hit the forward and back arrow keys in MC fullscreen viewer, it does nothing.
I've tried my best to explain as clearly as possible my situation, and I really hope it might be a bit clearer.
Thanks
cosmic