Re: Icons with photos in them
- From: "Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:44:33 -0400
I have never worked with ME, so I don't know.
But all is not lost, you can reduce the size of the thumbnails to something
she will prefer.
Go to this site and download the free TweakUI.exe into one of your folders.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Once in the folder, double click on the file to install it.
Once installed, Click on Start and All programs.
You will see Powertoys for Windows XP listed there. Open it and click on
TweakUI for XP.
A window will open. Click on the + sign at the left of Explorer to open it
and click on Thumbnails.
The default size is 96, change it to 50 and see if this works or her.
You can try the free Picasa 2 from here:
www.picasa.com
This is what I have on my wife's computer.
She just click on the Picasa icon on her desktop and she can see all the
thumbnails of all the photos on her hard drive. No need to open any folder,
she can just scroll through all of them, or use the time line do display in
chronological order. Also quite easy to make special albums or collections
of pictures from various folders. If you spend about 1 hour with it to
understand the features, your mother may like this little toy.
"Marc" <Marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DF91E7DF-41AF-47EE-A19D-248DB17D3C2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yves,
>
> That's what I tried to show her and she was not happy doing it that way.
The
> thumbnails are too big for her to do anything with especially since her
hands
> are not too steady. Also she prfers to avoid extra steps and drag the
picture
> to her various folders.
>
> Are you suggesting that in XP one can't do this as you apparantly can in
ME?
> If not, can you suggest a simple program that I can have installed that
would
> do the trick.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
>
> "Yves Alarie" wrote:
>
> > Instead of using the Icon view, just change this to the Thumbnails view
and
> > then she can just select the thumbnails and move them to other folders.
> > As it is in XP, the icon view gives you the icon of the software in
which
> > the picture will open if you double click on it.
> >
> > "Marc" <Marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:0B0DAFD0-4E06-498D-8359-8BA76E410F04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > I recently changed my elerdly mother from ME to XP. She swears that on
ME
> > the
> > > icons had small pictures in them. Thsi is in the icon view. She uses
this
> > to
> > > view and move her pictures to other folders.
> > >
> > > She does not use the "My Pictures" folder, but instead makes her own
> > folder
> > > on the desktop to download her pictures to from her camera.
> > >
> > > How can this be set changed simply so that it happens by itself every
> > time.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
.
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