Windows ships with a tidy set of built‑in utilities that make a PC usable out of the box — but if you’re looking for speed, control, and features that actually match real workflows, the defaults often fall short and quietly slow you down. A recent roundup arguing that Windows’ bundled apps can...
Nostalgia and practicality find an unexpected intersection on the modern Windows desktop, where a surprisingly large number of applications from the 1990s—and even earlier—continue to earn their keep. For many power users, these veteran programs have outlasted countless rivals and built-in...
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Hidden and Timeless Software Gems That Still Shine on Windows 11
Though we live in an age of ever-shifting software landscapes, some older programs endure with surprising grace, continuing to deliver essential functionality and efficiency on modern Windows 11 systems. Not every shiny new app is...
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I have a HP Pavilion laptop running Windows 10.
I am trying to find an image that I would have viewed on a specific day last week via Bing on Edge.
I keep getting told to look in the history - which is easy enough to do in any browser, but all that seems to do is take me to the page of my Bing...
I tried to browse an image but after checking the box and getting a drive letter it did nothing like it used to. I have deleted all the XML files so that coud be the cause but it never use to be.
Can you help as I cannot contact macrium as I have the free version?
So 2 issues, browsing an image...
ive always had a mac and have to use windows for awhile. ive looked at alot of apps already and they are either poor apps or dont do what they say
can anyone suggest a really good program with a slideshow, full screen, i can use the mouse to change pics
My pictures, which should be located at "C:\Users\Jake\My Pictures" don't show up in library. I tried adding it to the library manually, but every time I do that and close the window showing which folders are included, and I click on pictures, they don't show up. Instead it shows this folder...
Hello, I use windows 7 home premium x32 bit and every photo i open shows up as a 4:3 photo. I know that my photos are 16:9, even the stock windows photos are 4:3. I am using windows photo viewer to view the photos. I have a 1336x768 screen, it's a laptop screen. Please help. Thanks for your time.
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I have been looking everywhere and have been unable to find any software which can perform this function. Basically (without going into too much detail) I have a mirror which is reflecting a monitor image, and the resulting image is mirrored. I need a way to flip the monitor screen...
Has anyone found an alternative to the default photo viewer in windows 8.1? Or alternatively, how to change the way it sorts my folders. At the moment, all my old folders are showing first and my new folders are showing last which is a pain.
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Is there a photo viewing app that automatically rotates a picture, so if the picture is landscape then it is landscape on the screen but if it is a portrait then it is portrait on the screen, to maximize the size of the picture on the small screen? Many Android apps do this but I have not found...
I am trying to control which thumbnails display on folder icons in my Pictures library. Right now, all of the folder icons show thumbnails of 2 pictures. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which 2 pictures are chosen (obviously that is not true, it just seems that way). I assumed that...
With W7 when I wanted to look at pictures I could just click on an album, enlarge it and look at each picture. Now when I click on a picture, the Picture App comes on and maybe one picture will show, I can't look at any other picture or enlarge one. I can't do anything. It is also hard to return...
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Using Word 7 and choosing pics to include in document.
How do I change the VIEW of my pictures? It currently shows the name of the jpeg only. How do I change it all over to thumbnail of the pictures?
I use forums for posting photographs, and it's important to me that the image as displayed on a forum looks the way it's supposed to.
My Windows 8 test machine is a 2008 Toshiba Satellite laptop. I did a "clean install" on it, meaning Windows 8 set everything up. I've been noticing that...
i have a number of GIF images on my computer. for some reason they open in Internet Explorer rather than Windows Photo Viewer like other image extensions do. Can anyone tell me how to view GIFs in Windows Photo Viewer? Cause I can't seem to find it when i go to Open With.
Thanks in advance.
My desktop background became solid black colors and can only select from solid colors.
Even if I select image it still shows solid color and thumbnail of image in
win7/personalization does not work. (look at image 1 below)
another problem all folder, video and image thumbnails dont work (look...
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Fixes two issues that occur when you try display a large TIFF file that contains multiple pages by using Windows Photo Viewer. These issues occur on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
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