Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
Posted by admin on Oct 22nd, 2006
I really dislike the Microsoft Photo Editor in Vista. What happened to the Picture and Fax Viewer that was in XP? Is it possible to run the Picture and Fax Viewer in Vista? I have searched for the .exe for this in XP but am unable to find it anyone know where it is?Thanks
Oct 23rd, 2006 at 06:54 pm
Gotcha. The one in Office 2007 is Office Picture Manager or something.If you go with Corel PSP 11 make sure you get the latest download. It has fixes to make it run in Vista. Otherwise if can be bumpy."Malke"
Oct 26th, 2006 at 08:51 am
I meant "gotcha" in the sense of "now I understand", not in the sense of "I beat you". I couldn't understand why his was defaulting to Photo Editor and I didn't even have a Photo Editor option to choose from. "Malke"
Oct 30th, 2006 at 12:55 am
I have nothing against new OS's, etc but newer is NOT always better. The Windows Picture & Fax Viewer was simply a better interface to viewing and printing one's photos than the Photo Editor they should have done away with the latter and enhanced/improved the former and kept it. Just my 2 cents <g>"MeNoKnow" wrote:
Nov 1st, 2006 at 02:47 am
I just noticed that when I doubleclick a JPEG it opens in a Photo Gallery thing. Is that what you meant, or are yours actually opening in a thing called Photo Editor? I don't even see Photo Editor as an option in Open With. "Dennis"
Nov 3rd, 2006 at 08:01 pm
Yep...it's Photo Editor (it's available from the 'default programs' area I didn't think too much of the Photo Gallery option either <g> guess I'll just use a 3rd party product (Corel)."MeNotKnow" wrote:
Nov 8th, 2006 at 03:05 am
Dennis wrote: Photo Editor is part of MS Office. If you installed Office, you didn't do a custom install and therefore allowed Photo Editor (and I agree with you that it sucks) to be installed. You can remove Photo Editor by going to the Programs part of Control Panel and Change Microsoft Office. If you don't like Photo Gallery (which is native to Vista) then certainly you can use a thirdparty program. Irfanview is free, fast, very excellent, and works in Vista. Malke Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MSMVP Windows Shell/User
Nov 12th, 2006 at 01:30 pm
Puppy Breath wrote: That's as may be, but the OP has not mentioned whether or not he has Office or I have missed that and the Photo Editor is in older versions of MS Office as I said. This is a common problem with older versions of MS Office as the Photo Editor takes over and it isn't very good. I wouldn't know about Office 2007; although I have installed it, I haven't really used it. Again, we don't know if the OP even has Office or if he does what version; I just suggested this might be the reason.I wasn't aware we were in a "gotcha" contest. I know that *I'm* not as that isn't the way I approach helping in the MS newsgroups. Malke Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MSMVP Windows Shell/User
Nov 13th, 2006 at 02:50 pm
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is a goner. I don't think there's an installation program for it, so I don't see how you could bring it into Vista. Besides, take it from a guy who has been beta testing OS's since the DOS era. The less "old stuff" you throw at a new OS, the better. Especially on a major revamp like this, which only comes along every 10 or 15 years."Dennis"
Nov 16th, 2006 at 01:40 am
Today, =?Utf8?B?RGVubmlz?= made these interesting comments ... 'tis said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I personally turned off XP's Picture & Fax Viewer in favor of my normal graphics app, as if I really want to do more than even a very quick print, it almost always involves some sort of tweak to the image, its size, cropping, etc. depending on what I want to do beyond simply viewing it.So, you 2 cents is just as valuable as mine or others here, and also just as worthless as all of ours. It highly depends on what you needs vs want and simply what you like vs don't like.As to your opening line, I'd certainly agree with that! Software these days is being driven by greedy marketers who believe rightly or wrongly that they can artificially increase sales by introducing a new version in every shrinking product cycles, often by just rearranging the GUI. Each new version, of course, comes with its own set of bugs, so people who feel some compulsion to always be uptodate essentially beta test all of their apps and utilities with their Visa cards and may well have lost track of why they have a PC in the first place to do useful work for them. HP, aka Jerry