Questions tagged [windows-photo-gallery]
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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 the box with Windows 7
Which of those…
Tschareck
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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?
Marco Mn
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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\Windows Photo Gallery\Original Images
I…
RogUE
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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-installed). These programs were both wonderfully…
JulianR
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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 the left/right arrow keys to select a previous/next…
Lieven Keersmaekers
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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 Pro) to have the photographs open in Windows Photo…
Moph
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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 comes with Windows Essentials which includes other…
RogUE
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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, nothing is happening - these photos are not…
AngryHacker
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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.
McBainUK
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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 device after import. This is a very handy feature…
ChiliYago
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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 Photo Gallery encountered an error and can't…
Dan Novak
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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 add one or more Virtual Library to the Windows 7…
Steve_A
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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 (tested with jpg, bmp, png).
How can I restore…
Peter Lillevold
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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 some old stuff from iPhoto which is not rotated…
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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 photo was taken.
I'd like to do the same thing…
AngryHacker
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