Re: Slide show in XP?

7:39 AM 6/17/2006

Jeff:

I have not used PaintShop Pro and Google spun out a million paintshop blah
blah blah. Is that the Corel software?

I use a different image editor but I have found Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer (WPFV) to be much faster for browsing images and then when I encounter
an image I want to work on, one of the buttons on the toolbar at the bottom
of the WPFV window opens the image into the image editor I have selected as
default.

I believe Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is an integral part of XP but I do
not know where it resides. If you would like to make it the default viewer
(browser) for any particular image file type, just right click any image icon
and choose "Properties". In the Properties dialog box, click the "Change"
button to the right of "Opens With...". Choose Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer. This would have to be repeated for .JPG, .BMP, etc.

Explore the toolbar along the bottom. You can click to view images in any
given file as a slide show or manually browse images with the mouse or cursor
keys.

There is a button on the toolbar at the bottom of the WPFV window which will
open the image into the image editor you have chosen as default.

One word of caution: I would not use WPFV for any manipulation of the
image, i.e. "rotate"-- there could be irretrievable, unintended consequences.

If you do NOT want to make WPFV your default image browser, you can still
open it for use as a slideshow generator by right-clicking any image and
choosing 'Open With".

Post again if you have any further questions.

Mark



"Jeff" wrote:

Thank you Mark.

I prefer to use PaintShop Pro as the default image viewer because I use it
work on the images. Does Window Picture and Fax exist as a separate program
I can call up for slide shows when I wish to? I cannot find it as a separate
application on my drive.

Jeff

Callmark1 wrote:
Hi Jeff:

If your default image viewer is Window Picture and Fax, you should be
able
to just double-click the image you want to view and then click the
icon at
the bottom of the screen that looks like a tiny projector screen.
You might
also want to explore the rest of the bottons on this tool bar. In
addition,
Tweak UI, a free MS utility, has many cool, hassle-free ways to
adjust what Windows does with images and many other objects:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakui.asp

Mark



"Jeff" wrote:

I think there is a graphic program in XP Home that lets you view jpg
and
other images as a running "slideshow" but I cannot find it. Can
someone
point me in the right direction?

Jeff



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