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    Windows Photo Gallery replacement?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by agusman, May 14, 2009.

  1. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    I use Windows Photo Gallery to open images, but its VERY slow to load a picture.

    When I first open an image in a folder, it takes a long time to open. After its loaded, I can see all other images in that folder at normal speed, but it slows down a lot when opening the first picture in a folder...

    Is there a solution to this?

    Any replacement software recomendations?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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  2. Tinselworm

    Tinselworm Notebook Deity

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  3. EnterKnight

    EnterKnight Notebook Evangelist

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    Or Windows Live Photo Gallery.
     
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    Evaders99 Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like it is going ahead and parsing data / generating thumbnails for everything in that folder, probably why after the first picture, it's fine. Not sure there is anything you can do
     
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    Rob41 Team Pirate Control

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    I use Picasa 3 as well.
     
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  6. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    I remember trying Picasa a long time ago, but I didn't like it because it organized my pics only by date, and not according to the folders I had them in...

    is this solved in 3? can I organize as I wish?

    EDIT: just downloaded picasa 3 and seems great... I had ruled it out because I never liked Picasa 1, but this one has "tree view" for the folders, and the picture viewer is fast and stylish so far.. thanks for the replies!
     
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  7. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What file format?

    Windows Photo gallery is fast for me on up to 10 Mega Pixels - it sometimes is fast on large panoramas - 50 Megapixles do take awhile though - that's JPEG.

    Canon Raw data files take longer to load though - possibly because the codec isn't perfect as Photohop or the Canon software open them immediately too.
     
    DetlevCM, May 14, 2009
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