photo viewer

Good night to all, I recently began experiencing the "COM Surrogate" error while opening up pretty much all pictures with Microsoft "Windows Photo Viewer" I'm attaching a screenshot. I found millions of suggestions online (codecs, Adobe CS3, CS4) but none seem to be working (and most wont...

I really liked the Photo Gallery that came with Vista. Now that I'm on Windows 7, I see that that sidebar - where date taken, geo tags, and tags are displayed - is no longer available. Is there any way to get this sidebar in Windows Photo Viewer that came with Windows 7, or Windows Live...

Can someone tell me how to use this? I open my memory stick and double click on the picture, which brings up the HP mediasmart photo and when I try to go to the next picture there is no arrow or anything to go forward or backward. It's probably something really simple...just don't know...

In XP, when I double-clicked on a file (.jpg, .wmv, etc.), it would open the applicable program on top of the explorer window that given file was in. Now, in Win7 (x64), when I double-click one of those files, the app. (Windows Photo Viewer, WMP, etc.) is opening behind the explorer window. Is...

Hi everyone, I tried to search this forum bottomsup, but coudn't find a solution for my problem. Here's my problem: When I open images and mayby some other templates on windows default image viewer I get all my images yellow overlay. Even this (from Vista) tweak bar where you have calendar...

I just turned up my new Windows 7 laptop and I was wondering if anyone knows if Windows Photo Gallery can run on Windows 7 or is there an equivilent in windows 7?

Computer Specs: Compaq Presario CQ60 AMD Sempron SI-42 2.10 GHz 3.00 GB RAM Windows 7 32-bit Professional I installed Windows 7 on 10/23/09 (or close to that date) and I did a clean install. The key I got for it was from my work. It says it is activated. About a week ago when I turned...

I cannot get the colour management in Windows 7 (32 bit) to work. I have a wide gamut display, and have produced a colour profile using my Spyder2Pro. I have associated the profile with my display - initially I did it just for my user account, but then tried making it the default profile for all...

I have a weird.. error? happening with the image preview. Basically whats happening is, I'm taking pictures and cropping them down in photoshop, and then saving them as a JPEG. Now I can open the image in Photoshop, Picasa, Windows 7 Photo Viewer, Firefox/Chrome/IE/Any Web Browser etc, and I'll...

hi guys I'm new here. just wanna ask and share some problems and questions. bug find: 1. When opening jpgs or any other picture files, Windows Photo Viewer opens at the background.. arghhh! It happens 4 times out of 6. Anyone encountered this? 2. mini-lag when opening and closing windows

I have the pre release version and everything was working great untill one day Windows Media player Stopped working completely. W7 always scans for an answer but never finds one. Also Photo Viewer sais it doesnt recognize file types as common as Jpegs, Tifs and almost anything I can think of...

I've been using Windows 7 x64 for quite a few months now, and there was a bug on the beta version that I thought was gone in the RC, but I see it's still here. Initially I was wondering why the Windows Photo Viewer was so darn sluggish compared to it's counterpart in Vista. From opening images...

I have an issue with Windows 7 changing the color/contrast/brightness of images set as a background. These images have the correct color/brightness when viewed by any other means (Windows Image Viewer, GIMP, FF, IE8), however, when they are set as a background it appears the brightness of the...

Ok so this is the problem: My thumbnails have stopped working,all of the sudden I see the paint and brush symbol on each picture in each folder. So far i have tried the following: going to folder options and to the View tab,then unchecking always show icons,never thumbnails several times... (no...

Hey guys using the beta build and periodically the shell/window manager/aero will become corrupted and takes on random colors it also happens usually if i am looking at a photo and once i close it some of the photo is still stuck under the aero interface has anyone else had this issue...

I'm running Windows 7 beta 7000, x64 Bit, (fresh install) and despite a few little bugs (like the gadgets not working when UAC is disabled), I find things are quite robust. However, one thing that is insanely slow compared to Vista or XP is the WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER. Even opening tiny images...