Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

ravindra106 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:02:05 GMT

i also have some problems regarding this but anyways thanx for sharing.

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re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

BronxBoy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:08:34 GMT

I seem to have a problem with the Duplicate Detection feature of Photo Gallery. I had been downloading photos from numerous memory cards, using a memory card reader, onto my new Dell laptop, running Vista Home Premium. I downloaded 114 photos from a micro (cell phone) card. A few minutes later, I mistakenly plugged the same card back into the computer. Instead of telling me that "Windows has not found any new items," it recognized and downloaded 66 items, which were duplicates of some of the 114 from that card that were already in Photo Gallery. What can I do to make the Duplcate Detection work properly?

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Bernielj — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:19:25 GMT

With WIN98SE and with WIN-XP I had no problems with photos, as I used ULead Photo Explorer v.7.0, Adobe PhotoDeluxe 4.0, and a few other products that I can't think of the name of right now, but I liked Corel Print Office and Corel Photo House the best, and those software programs came with the digital camera, an Agfa E-Photo CL-18, but they only worked up through WIN-XP.

Now that the new 2.4 Ghz PC came with Windows Vista Home Premium, none of these products work, and as far as Windows Photo Gallery goes, I can't even get it to "see" or detect the digital camera and I've been "fighting" this for days now.

I'm beginning to dislike Windows Vista as the manufacturer of the digital camera doesn't even have a Windows Vista driver for it, and they're not going to make a driver for the camera either, so I'm using the WIN-XP driver, which does work with webcam software, and I can see the images from the camera...I just can't import them, plus the GE webcam doesn't work with Windows Vista either, even though I've downloaded and have installed the latest driver for it, but I can get the Labtec webcam to work with Windows Vista, but I just haven't been able to get pictures off of the digital camera with Windows Photo Gallery.

Windows Photo Gallery does see the HP PSC 1410v All-In-One printer/scanner/copier though, but I don't need to import pictures from there.

I have scanned pictures to the hard drive in the past, and I haven't tried that with Vista yet, but I'll probably have trouble with that too.

Have a Great Day,

Bernardlj

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

ehackster — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:56:02 GMT

To everyone who is complaining about the "damaged" error message.

Go to your control panel/services and make sure that the service called "User Profile Service" is enabled and started. If not set the startup type to automatic, and reboot.

Although not documented anywhere, Windows Photo Gallery _WILL_ fail if this service is stopped.

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

admdiscos — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:17:11 GMT

I take a lot of digital photos and use Windows Photo Gallery to crop to size and rename photos. However, every so often I get the message 'Changes to this picture cannot be saved because Photo Gallery has experienced a problem'. No mention of what the problem is or how to fix it. At other times the crop frame fails to appear.

On each occasion I have to reboot the computer. What is the problem and how can I fix it. It is not the photos as it works perfectly after rebooting, for a while anyway.

Andy

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Face — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:44 GMT

I am getting more and more frustrated with Windows Vista, in particular Windows Photo Gallery and the rotating issues I am having with it.

It seems on frequent occasions rotating an image corrupts the image at a random point.

I have uploaded the photo to see if someone can shed light on the issue I am having and whether it will be fixed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12298550@N05/1261724418/

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

samdaye — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:11:25 GMT

Thank you so much bradr14!!!

I have been looking and looking for a solution to this problem. I work with pictures all the time and it was driving my crazy that the pictures were not opening in the "viewer". Not sure why it changed, but it cost me hours and hours of work!!

Thanks again!!

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Nick White — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:19:41 GMT

Hey bradr14: you're best off posting your questions on Windows Photo Gallery to the Photography and Video Blog, as that team is best equipped to respond to them: http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/.

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

bradr14 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:56:33 GMT

@cburg

I know exactly what you are talking about as I have had the exact same problem. (To elaborate for those who may not understand, yes, we know that there is no separate "Viewer" application like in XP, but there is a "Viewer" mode of Windows Photo Gallery that should pop up when you double-click an image file, which is different than the regular gallery mode that comes out when you open Photo Gallery itself.)

The way that I fixed this (which was maddeningly simple after I searched for registry hacks and the like) was to go into "Default Programs", click "Set your default programs", and click "Set this program as default" for Windows Photo Gallery. Hope it works for you.

Now my new problem: after installing Fireworks CS3, I am once again having the same problem, except my fix no longer works. For some reason, Fireworks won't "let go" of gif files. Even if I click on set Windows Photo Gallery as the default for gifs, Adobe Fireworks CS3 remains the default program. Any thoughts?

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Frustrated Chris — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:39:26 GMT

Thanks Nick, I will take a look at that site. FYI, all of my images were JPG.

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Nick White — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:03:25 GMT

Hey Frustrated Chris: this does not sound to me like the same problem as cburg's; from what I've read on the web, there may be an issue that affects the photo files' properties, esp. if these photos were captured in RAW format. There are a number of fixes out there if that's the case, but you'll need to identify the exact nature of the issue in your particular case. To do that, I suggest posting it to one of the Windows Vista public newsgroups, as it's ikely that someone else has encoutered this issue before and found a solution: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/.

Hope this helps.

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Frustrated Chris — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:48:54 GMT

I purchased a new computer with Vista and brought over my files from my old XP system via an external hard drive. Sadly, I have the same problem as cburg. Vista sees the files and all their details (size, date) but cannot view them. I get an error message stating "Photo Gallery can't open this picture of video. The file appears to be damaged or corrupted"

Of course, the file is just fine and works OK when I reconnect the external hard drive to my old system. So what's the deal? If I cannot view all of my old photos in Vista, then there is no way I am upgrading. That's pretty much a written invitation to try a different operating system. As annoying is the Mac guy in the commercials is, I'm pretty close to buying one right now.

Add to that the lack of compatibility with some of my old software (especially games purchased in the last 12 months). Come on guys....

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:12:34 GMT

cburg, could you elaborate a little more on your issue? In Windows Vista, there is no "viewer" for photos anymore as the functionality is built into Windows Photo Gallery. So when you click on a photo file, that photo will open up in Windows Photo Gallery.

Windows Photo and Fax Viewer from Windows XP did not come over into Windows Vista - that functionality was built into Windows Photo Gallery.

When I click on a photo file, it opens in Windows Photo Gallery and I can view the image just fine - including zooming in and fixing the photo as well.

- Brandon

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

cburg — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:36:45 GMT

In windows explorer, when I try to open a photo file Windows Photo Gallery opens. I want the file to open in the viewer. How do I associate the files with the viewer and not have the gallery open?

re: Managing your Photos with Windows Vista

Wild Bill — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:21:31 GMT

Photo Gallery is my defalt program for opening .jpg and jpeg files. It works fine on .jpeg files, but when I double click on .jpg files, Photo Gallery opens but does not display the file.

Any ideas?