Questions tagged [windows-photo-gallery]
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displaying icons instead of thumbnails
In windows 10, Windows Live Photo Gallery displays icons and not thumbnails. I have tried EVERYTHING with no results. (Well, not quite everything. dod not do the command prompt thing.) I finally ...
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How can I make Windows Photo Viewer (8) move to the next subfolder when at the end of one like Photos (10)?
Something like this:
Main Folder
Subfolder 1
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Subfolder 2
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
In the Windows 8 Photo Viewer (The ...
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How to customize print layouts in windows 7
I need to (add/modify) my customized layouts to the print Pictures layouts listed in Photo Gallery in Windows 7.
I was wondering if there is a simple way to do that within Photo Gallery only?
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Windows Photo Viewer takes a lot of time to open pictures
I don't know why but after upgrading OS form Win 8.1 to win 10 Windows Photo viewer takes atleast 2-3 minutes to open a picture. Other applications open in no time. I don't why is it so what can I do ...
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Windows 10 Photos App - any way to show open file name on Taskbar?
I work with hundreds of images daily, flicking through site photographs and importing those that I need into a document as part of my reporting process. It's always worked smoothly (under Windows 7 ...
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How to edit photos without importing them to my pc?
I have been using windows Photo Gallery for some time. Recently, when I tried to edit a photo within a removable drive(exactly, an SD Card), it asks me first to import them to the PC.
But, I do not ...
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Change default path for saving original images in Windows Photo Gallery
I have installed the Windows Photo Gallery recently. I would like to know how can I change the path where the original pictures are saved. Now the default path is
C:\Users\____\AppData\Local\Microsoft\...
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How to get Windows Photo Gallery?
I currently use Picasa for managing photos in my windows 7 pc. But, I would like to switch from Picasa to something else and I think Windows Photo Gallery would be a good option. The problem is it ...
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How to easily locate photo opened in Windows 8.1 Photo App
Short story
Where on disk is the photo I'm looking at?
tldr;
My daughter is scrolling through all photo's we have using the Windows 8.1 Photo App. She has a photo maximized on screen and is using ...
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iphone 5c pictures automatically synched to my home pc computer photo gallery
my college students iphone 5c pictures are being sent to my home pc's photo gallery without the owners knowledge. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
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Windows 7 rename files by manually dragging into place
I need to manually rename a bunch of photo files so that they make more sense in sequence (I am an artist and I need to put the reference photos in the correct order so that the model appears to be ...
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Windows Photo Gallery not showing my photos
I've fired up Windows Photo Gallery, right-clicked on the Pictures node, selected Manage Pictures library and added a bunch of network folders (from mapped drives) with JPGs and PNGs.
Unfortunately,...
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How to get Windows Photo Gallery to store its thumbnails in a non-default place?
It looks like Windows Photo Gallery stores thumbnails for photos in this location: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Is it possible to force it to store it on ...
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Remove Facebook photos from Windows 8 Photo Gallery [closed]
I have disconnected Facebook from Windows 8, but the pictures are still showing in Photo Gallery. How do I remove the photos? I do not just want to hide the tile, but would like the pictures removed ...
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Win8 Delete Files on Device when Importing
Win8 has the native "Import Photos and Videos" app but also has a similar functionality in the WinRT environment in the Photos application.
The native application has an option to delete files on ...
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Add Windows Live Photo Gallery's "Edit tab" to the context menu of photos in Explorer
I quite like Windows Live Photo Gallery for managing and also for touching up photos (straighten, contrast, etc).
Oddly, even though it is standard on Windows 7, it doesn't seem to be well integrated ...
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How do you fix error 0x8007000b in Windows Live Photo Gallery?
When you start Windows Photo Gallery (formerly Windows Live Photo Gallery, now part of Microsoft Essentials 2012), you may receive the following errors, and the application will close:
Windows Live ...
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Adding Virtual Library and/or Virtual Folder to latest Photo Gallery on Windows 7
How to make nested Library in windows 7? and Is it possible to have nested libraries in Windows 7? were both wanting to have Nested Libraries.
Clearly this is not possible, but it is possible to ...
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Tagged Facebook photos (Photos of you) in Windows 8 Photos app
Windows 8 Photos app seems to sync only the Albums that I own in my Facebook profile leaving the tagged photos aside.
I have a lot of my photos being tagged by my facebook friends. The app doesn't ...
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Standard application to automatically rotate pictures based on EXIF
There are few applications, that I have installed on almost every Windows 7 computer. This are applications such as:
Windows Live Gallery (Windows Live Essentials)
Picasa
anything, that comes out of ...
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Is there a difference between .JPG and .jpg?
Files that have uppercase extensions (specifically .JPG) are not opening or being recognized in Windows Live Photo Gallery. .jpg files work as expected. What could be causing this issue?
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How can I rotate MOV and mp4 files in Windows Live Photo Gallery?
I am using Windows Live Photo Gallery on Windows 7 to manage my photos and video clips from camera/phone. If I import photos/videos from camera, it is smart enough to rotate as necessary, but I have ...
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How to import photos/videos from USB stick to Windows Live Photo Gallery
When I pop in my camera, Windows Live Photo Gallery allows me to import the photos into a folder I predefined (on network storage) earlier. I have it setup to create a folder for each date that the ...
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How do I share my photos and video?
I have 1.8Tb of private photos and videos. I want my family to have access to this files.
I'm running a 24/7 home server using Windows 7, users will also have Windows 7.
Note: I don't want to upload ...
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Windows Live photo gallery deleted my whole desktop!
I just tried the new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery. I double-clicked on a photo on my desktop and noticed that Photo Gallery added the desktop folder to the gallery.
I didn't like it and I ...
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how to open jpg files full size
I've recently enrolled in an online course that is presented in a Java window (no ability to copy/paste text). I have been taking notes with print screen and then saving the image via MS Paint as a ...
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Copying person/identity tag of photo to traditional tag
I just started using Windows Live Photo Gallery and tagged about 400 photos using the person (people) tag. For photos without people in them or photos with people that I don't want to identify, I ...
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Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4 Beta batch people tagging
I installed the beta and ran Photo Gallery on a collection of some 1000 photos in order to test the batch detection. It gave me a bunch of options at first, which looked promising, but having gone ...
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Resize picture when emailing with Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail
Recently, I've set up a PC for computer novices. The PC came with Vista installed, and for managing photo's I let it use Windows Photo Gallery, for email I used Windows Mail (which both came pre-...
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How to Set the Correct Region/Market for Online Prints in Windows Live Photo Gallery?
I'm based in The Netherlands. However, I prefer to use my PC with English Language software and operating system. I have the English (US) version of Windows 7 and Windows Live installed.
The ...
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What database software will open a .db5 file?
What database software will open a .db5 file? Namely the Windows Live Photo Gallery Pictures.db5 database. I'd like to see the design and also the raw table data if possible.
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Picture thumbnails gone on Vista after installing Windows Live Photo Gallery
After installing Windows Live Photo Gallery on my Vista x64 box I've lost picture preview and thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Only the Photo Gallery "flower" image thumbnail shows for all images types ...
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Windows Live Photo Gallery - Order prints not working in Windows 7
I am trying to order prints online from Windows Live Photo Gallery by selecting Print, Order Prints from the menu. My Operating System is Windows 7 RTM.
It brings up the 'Select a Printing Company' ...
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