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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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