But I know many people love it, are very happy with it, and use it regularly. And to address the issue that lead your question: you can print directly from within Windows Photo Gallery. Windows Photo Gallery is implemented in the same file: shimgvw. A reader recently recommended FastStone Image Viewer :. FastStone has quickly become my favored replacement for my long-loved, but now defunct Firehand Ember.
Another very popular image viewer is IrfanView :. Both Irfan and FastStone offer standard image viewing options, slide shows, thumbnail browsing, full screen view, and much more. In addition they both also include basic image editing tools such as cropping, resizing, and more.
They are suitable replacements that work well on both Windows Vista and XP. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week.
But even if you chose another program to use as your default picture viewer. I Hate IT!! Hi buddies, i m sure there must be a good solution for it in vista…i think its possible to put WPandFv even in Vista…just let me experiment it for some days coz i m too missing it in Vista.
Now with Vista it uses windows photo gallery. Now my faxes are too wide and am forced to foreward them to my old xp computer.
Unfortunately, I have NO idea how to do this :. But Vista is sulking in a subtle way — all the jpegs I have stored now appear with different icons, and when I double click to open one from My Documents having set FastStone as my default jpeg viewer , I get a box with an error message saying the file is not a valid Win32 application.
Any idea how to fix this? Whoops, never mind. Just discovered I made an error when re-setting things in the Default Programs section of Control Panel. Apologies — all fine now. As one of the comments stated, Pix and Fax Viewer gives the user a multitude of printing options.
What if I want to print all my pix in 3 by 5 format? But if you select the pictures you want to print under explorer and the print by right clicking on them you have what you want. Once you get used to the way vista does it, you can do pretty much everything with it also cropping, adjusting contrast and other things. Thanks a million. Can view my clip art thumbnails for the first time since going with Vista. Thanx u!! I used to use the Picture and Fax viewer which was great as it allowed me to only print certain pages of the fax.
It seems that this option is no longer available with the new Photo Gallery, I have to print all the pages even though in most cases I only want one or two out of twenty. Does anyone know if this can be done with Photo Gallery? I can do it with Irfanview but it often cuts the edge of the pages off without a heap of messing around.
After being a die-hard mac-head since buying the original k Mackintosh in , I finally switched to Windows for a number of pragmatic reasons relating to business. Can this be changed? Guys you are talking about windows photo gallery that it is same as windows fax and picture viewer but it does not support gif images.
The images that are in gif format are still in windows photo gallery. So please tell me how to view gif images in windows vista.. You can view them in internet explorer or firefox or use one of the above image viewer replacements. Windows Picture and Fax View enabled this so that, were I to view an animated gif, I would see it in its full, animated glory. However, with the programs on Vista, all I get is the first frame and no change to the other frames.
The only way I can view animated gifs now is to open them in Internet Explorer and I find that rather tedious. Are there any good image programs for viewing animated pictures? It is quite similar with Windows picture and fax wiewer, you can view gif files and you can print multiple photos from the same directory.
It also have a thubnail display option. Hey, this article is great, i understood all the necessary information about image viewing. Thank You! I encoutered a problem that in vista some of the pictures downloaded from mail can not be viewed why? I have windows vista and regularly use the photo gallery for viewing my pictures. Any idea why this might be? It has been like this since i got it, I have restored it back to when i got it and its the same.
Actually, yes you can view. To view , simply right click your. I need someone with knowledge of vista to help me out. I did download a program and after that happened I can no longer see images. It is hard to pic out my images now because I can not figure out how to view the preview.
Can someone help me turn it back on or make it so I can view the small icons again? All I can think is that a program I am using is stopping it from showing up. Or is there a setting I am not aware of? It looks like an email program, complete with an Inbox, a Sent Items folder, and so on. In fact, a New Fax window like a New Message window awaits you. Double-click the name of the contact to whom you want to send the fax. He must be capable of receiving the fax. If you do, then a new text box opens up, where you can type a little note, which also appears on the cover page.
Note: You can ignore the main message box at the bottom of the window for now. To send the document, Click Send. Your modem dials, and the fax goes on its merry way.
You can go do other work on the PC; when the fax goes through, a cheerful message appears in your notification area. Your recipient is in for a real treat.
If you use vista Home or Home premium, you can try out this email fax alternative to print over internet. I assume that the fax feature works only over a dial-up modem and regular phone line. So to receive a fax, you need to have the computer always connected to the phone line. I wish it were possible to send faxes over a DSL or cable connection. Most people have this, even if they also have DSL or Cable. Send me your fax question. This entry is filed under Fax Modems , Windows faxing.
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