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okmeteor

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I personaly do not like Windows Media Center for browsing my digital photos.
I used to use Ulead Photo Explorer 6.

Does anyone know of a image browser which works as well as PE6 did in Win 98SE, for use in Win 7 x64 OS.
 

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Image browser for Win 7 x64

Yeah Thanks.

I guess I will have to be satisfied, not as good as PE6, but way better than the worthless Windows Media Center or Windows picture viewer.

I had tried this progam when I was running XP, but uninstalled it due to PE6 functioning semi sort of in XP which was still better than FastStone in my Opinion.
Had forgotten all about it.
So, once again Thanks.
 

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Have you considered Google's Picasa?
 

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Oh, I did when running XP.
Thought it was a flaming waste of time and effort when compared to PE6.
The only thing GOOGLE I use is their search engine.
But have not tried it since installing Win 7 - will now and compare to FastStone.
Thanks for the reminder.
 

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Not sure what features you are looking for that makes you prefer PE6 since I've never used it. I recently discovered this viewer/organizer software and really like it: Zoner Photo Studio
 

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Built my first computer (8Mhz 8088cpu, 640K RAM, 20MB HDD, 2 360K floppy drives) in 1985 and have been building them for myself, relatives and friends ever since.

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Window Media Center

Yeah, IRfanview is a waste of time. Thanks
 

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To (Strollin).
Well PE6 (Photo Explorer 6) from Ulead Systems was included with the first flatbed scanner my wife and I bought.
It used Windows Explorer to browse image files on your computer.
Nothing special - until everybody wanted to improve and make things more difficult.
PE6 worked fantastic with Windows 98SE was sluggish in XP and will not open in Windows 7.
But even Sluggish in XP (I still prefered it over all these other programs) due to it's ease of use.
Today all the image viewers want you to upload to facebook, youtube, edit, share, or transfer to your computer before you can even view a thumbnail.

Thus my ANGST!

Photo Explorer 6 was so simple (which made it Brilliant) that today all the bells and whistles are just that{gadgets inthe way which collect RUST}

Sorry to vent, hope this brings you up to date.
Take care,
 

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I need to apologise.

Hey! Everyone I am sorry.

I had no idea so few people were familiar with Photo Explorer 6 from Ulead.
It was an HP Scanner the program was included with. So I thought more people would be familiar with it. My mistake.

Anyway it was a great program, open and browse all your image files anywhere on your PC.

These other programs want you to dedicate (kids not born yet to software research) before you can even view one picture on your computer - let alone a thumbnail image -.

I do not have time for that kind of crap.

You must understand I never once considered PE6 a photo editing program or solution for bad photography.

My opinion is - If you took a bad picture then - YOU TOOK A BAD PICTURE:
Get over it delete it or whatever.

It is the developers trying to make editing easy for preschoolers ruining the chances of us having a decent photo viewer/manager program.

All I want to do is view the thumbnails on my sd cards so I do not have to open each individual file in order to decide to save or pass on it.
 
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you can view the thumbnails on your sd cards by plugging them into your card reader slot, (if you have one ) without a software, using windows explorer select an image and have the window view set to preview pane

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yes but it does not display the thumbs unless you actually click to open (it just shows a generic icon for image file).

Anyway I downloaded and tried Picasa again - Like FastStone better -

Thanks everyone for your input and suggestions.

Am through with this thread.

Bye.
 

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you can view the thumbnails on your sd cards by plugging them into your card reader slot, (if you have one ) without a software, using windows explorer select an image and have the window view set to preview pane

That preview pane functionality is enabled for files such as MKV by the Shark007 codec installation and use of the [Windows filetype Associations] button on the Help TAB of the Settings Application.

Without the Shark007 codecs, it would only work for system recognized files such as AVI.
Only files set to open with WMP by default will show up in the Preview Pane.
 

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ah ok ,it was showing jpegs i thought the op wanted ,thats what my screen
shot was showing.
 

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ati radeon HD 5450
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samsung lcd tv 32"
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1360x 768
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(1) WDC WD10 01FAES-60Z2A0 SATA Disk Device (2) Maxtor OneTouch USB Device (3) ST310003 33AS USB Device (4) WD My Book 1111 USB Device
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