My Pictures folder

[James]

I am trying to help someone who is using Internet Explorer 8, Windows
XP Pro. but when they click on "My Pictures" it does not show the
images in the folder, but only the URLs of the images. How can that be
changed so it will show the images in the My Pictures folder?

Thanks
James

 

[RobertVA]

I am trying to help someone who is using Internet Explorer 8, Windows
XP Pro. but when they click on "My Pictures" it does not show the
images in the folder, but only the URLs of the images. How can that be
changed so it will show the images in the My Pictures folder?

Thanks
James

Does the window have the lower case "e" icon for the Internet Explorer
browser or the file folder with a picture sticking out of it that
indicates the window is generated by the Windows Explorer file
management application? You should be seeing the Windows Explorer icon.
You should also be getting a pane with a blue background in the left
side of the Windows Explorer window with options for things like "View
as a slide show" and "Copy all items to a CD"

Windows Explorer has different display views. Look for a pull down on
its tool bar that features an icon that looks like a miniature of the
window. The Filmstrip and Thumbnail views will show miniature versions
of the graphics in the folder. The same view options should be available
in the second section of Windows Explorer's View menu.

Note that the title bar icon for Windows Explorer might have other
things protruding from the file folder or just a file folder when it's
displaying other folders on your hard drive. When showing "My Computer"
Windows Explorer might even show an icon depicting a CRT equiped
computer system.

The browser will usually include "- Windows Internet Explorer" after the
page title defined by the web site developer. When displaying a page or
graphic on YOUR computer the title bar will display the file path and
file name (space permiting).

 

[James]

Does the window have the lower case "e" icon for the Internet Explorer
browser or the file folder with a picture sticking out of it that
indicates the window is generated by the Windows Explorer file
management application? You should be seeing the Windows Explorer icon.
You should also be getting a pane with a blue background in the left
side of the Windows Explorer window with options for things like "View
as a slide show" and "Copy all items to a CD"

Windows Explorer has different display views. Look for a pull down on
its tool bar that features an icon that looks like a miniature of the
window. The Filmstrip and Thumbnail views will show miniature versions
of the graphics in the folder. The same view options should be available
in the second section of Windows Explorer's View menu.

Note that the title bar icon for Windows Explorer might have other
things protruding from the file folder or just a file folder when it's
displaying other folders on your hard drive. When showing "My Computer"
Windows Explorer might even show an icon depicting a CRT equiped
computer system.

The browser will usually include "- Windows Internet Explorer" after the
page title defined by the web site developer. When displaying a page or
graphic on YOUR computer the title bar will display the file path and
file name (space permiting).

Maybe I didn't explain this well e enough. When you click on My
Pictures in the Start menu, the window showing the thumbnails doesn't
appear-so I never get the window with the images, I only get a list of
urls-and we need to see the window in My Pictures containing the
images.

James

 

[RobertVA]

Maybe I didn't explain this well e enough. When you click on My
Pictures in the Start menu, the window showing the thumbnails doesn't
appear-so I never get the window with the images, I only get a list of
urls-and we need to see the window in My Pictures containing the
images.

James

Please respond with information about which application (Windows
Explorer or Internet Explorer) is displaying the "URLs". You should be
able to use the information I provided earlier about title bar icons,
text on the title bar ( is "- Windows Internet Explorer" present?) and
the presence or not of that list of options on the left side of the
window to determine which application is generating the window.

While they both utilize some of the same code libraries, Windows
Explorer and Internet Explorer are certainly two different applications.

Normally clicking "My Pictures" results in a Windows Explorer window. In
many of the views the listing contains the file names of the pictures
(like "dcs00132.jpg" or "clouds.bmp"). Depending on the active "view"
the window may also contain icons representing the application that will
be used to open or edit the picture OR a reduced size "thumbnail"
version of the picture. Many people would reserve the term "URL" for
pictures and other files stored on a remote computer like a web site.
"My Pictures" would normally be on your computer's hard drive.

Internet Explorer normally displays a single picture (often with a file
name ending with .jpg or .gif). or a web page. A web page displayed in
Internet Explorer MIGHT display a list of pictures and/or URLs, but
clicking "My Pictures" normally doesn't result in the display of a web page.

It IS possible for Windows Explorer to list the file names in a folder
(pictures or other types) without displaying thumbnails or the larger
version of the application associated with the file. That situation
would normally be a result of using list or details view. If your
computer is using Windows Explorer the information in my earlier post
explains how to switch to Thumbnails view.

 

[James]

Please respond with information about which application (Windows
Explorer or Internet Explorer) is displaying the "URLs". You should be
able to use the information I provided earlier about title bar icons,
text on the title bar ( is "- Windows Internet Explorer" present?) and
the presence or not of that list of options on the left side of the
window to determine which application is generating the window.

While they both utilize some of the same code libraries, Windows
Explorer and Internet Explorer are certainly two different applications.

Normally clicking "My Pictures" results in a Windows Explorer window. In
many of the views the listing contains the file names of the pictures
(like "dcs00132.jpg" or "clouds.bmp"). Depending on the active "view"
the window may also contain icons representing the application that will
be used to open or edit the picture OR a reduced size "thumbnail"
version of the picture. Many people would reserve the term "URL" for
pictures and other files stored on a remote computer like a web site.
"My Pictures" would normally be on your computer's hard drive.

Internet Explorer normally displays a single picture (often with a file
name ending with .jpg or .gif). or a web page. A web page displayed in
Internet Explorer MIGHT display a list of pictures and/or URLs, but
clicking "My Pictures" normally doesn't result in the display of a web page.

It IS possible for Windows Explorer to list the file names in a folder
(pictures or other types) without displaying thumbnails or the larger
version of the application associated with the file. That situation
would normally be a result of using list or details view. If your
computer is using Windows Explorer the information in my earlier post
explains how to switch to Thumbnails view.- Hide quoted text -

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If I click on START> MY PICTURES-I do not get the window with showing -
instead I only get a list of URLs beside where I clicked on my
pictures in the start menu. How do I make the My Pictures window
appear with the images.

Thanks
James

 

[RobertVA]

If I click on START> MY PICTURES-I do not get the window with showing -
instead I only get a list of URLs beside where I clicked on my
pictures in the start menu. How do I make the My Pictures window
appear with the images.

Thanks
James

You previously said you were getting a list in a window. Which is it, a
window or another column popping up to the right of the start menu? If
it's a window PLEASE respond with the COMPLETE text content of the title
bar at the top of that window. If a window appears when you click "My
Pictures" does it have a menu bar?

You keep mentioning URLs. URLs usually start with protocol
specifications like "http:" or "https:" (look for the colon). URLs for
pages or images on web sites offten include "www." and/or slashes. Do
the items on your list include any of these character sequences?

Depending on your Windows OS settings the FILES listed in a Windows
Explorer window MIGHT have a three letter file extension at the end
after a period. The most common file extension for digital photographs
is ".jpg". Does the listing on your screen after you click "My
Pictures"show any file extensions? Do the items in the list include
slash or backslash characters? Does each line start with a little
application icon? Are there column headings like "Name", Size" or "Type"
at the top of the list? Does the list include a column that look like dates?

Since clicking "My Pictures" normally doesn't bring ip anything that can
list URLs, I'm concerned that you've read that term somewhere and are
mis-applying that term to the file names in a Windows Explorer window
set to "Details" or "List" view. IF the type of view is changed by the
user, Windows ussualy (but not always) remembers that view setting the
next time you open or explore that folder.

Please RIGHT CLICK "My Computer" on the second column of the start menu.
Click "Explore" in the resu;ting context menu. Is there a "My Documents"
listed in the left window pane? If so, click the little plus sign to the
left of it. New items should appear between "My Documents" and "My
Computer" AND the plus sign next to "My Documents" should turn into a
minus sign. One of those items will normally be a duplicate "My
Pictures" (Windows tends to have duplicate ways of getting to the same
place). Clicking the TEXT of this "My Pictures" should result in a
listing of that folder's contents appearing in the right pane of the
Windows Explorer window. As I previously indicated the precense of
thumbnails can be turned on and off with the "View" column of the menu
OR the View drop down on the tool bar (an icon that looks like a little
window is next to it).

 

[Steve Hayes]

If I click on START> MY PICTURES-I do not get the window with showing -
instead I only get a list of URLs beside where I clicked on my
pictures in the start menu. How do I make the My Pictures window
appear with the images.

What sort of URLs?

Have you tried opening them with your web browser?

 

[James]

What sort of URLs?  

Have you tried opening them with your web browser?

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If I said I was getting a list in a window-I don't find where I said
that now-and is I sais that I probably meant DESKTOP, anyway the My
Pictures window won't open from the start menu like it does in about
all windows xps.

 

[James]

What sort of URLs?  

Have you tried opening them with your web browser?

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Of course each picture on a computer has a URL to it, if it's in a
folder-I can't memorize each number, letter, of the URL. If you mean
have I tried opening them from---say-facebook, I have and you see the
images then, but you go to Start>My Pictures you don't.

 

[NQ]

Of course each picture on a computer has a URL to it, if it's in a
folder-I can't memorize each number, letter, of the URL. If you mean
have I tried opening them from---say-facebook, I have and you see the
images then, but you go to Start>My Pictures you don't.

James while in My Pictures click onto Tools at the top and then click
onto Folder Options.Under the View tab put a check mark in front of
Always show thumbprints.

 

[Steve Hayes]

Of course each picture on a computer has a URL to it, if it's in a
folder-I can't memorize each number, letter, of the URL. If you mean
have I tried opening them from---say-facebook, I have and you see the
images then, but you go to Start>My Pictures you don't.

Each picture on a computer does NOT have a URL to it. It only has a URL if it
is on the Internet and accessible to other computers.

 

[Jim]

Of course each picture on a computer has a URL to it, if it's in a
folder-I can't memorize each number, letter, of the URL. If you mean
have I tried opening them from---say-facebook, I have and you see the
images then, but you go to Start>My Pictures you don't.

Where are the pictures stored ?

 

[James]

James while in My Pictures click onto Tools at the top and then click
onto Folder Options.Under the View tab put a check mark in front of
Always show thumbprints.- Hide quoted text -

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I would do just that but the window containing the images don/t even
show up.

 

[James]

Where are the pictures stored ?- Hide quoted text -

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They're in the computer, but if you want to email a pic from My
Pictures you don't want to email every picture on your computer just
to get the right one.

 

[NQ]

I would do just that but the window containing the images don/t even
show up.

James are you saying that you can't open up your My Picture folder at all ?

"Tools" is located at the top of your My Picture folder in the option
bar,it's also located at the top of My Documents so if you can't open My
Pictures then open My Documents,click onto Tools at the top of that
folder and then choose Folder Options from there.

I'm using a Windows 7 pc right now and can't remember where in the
Control Panel folder options is located for an XP pc but if for some
reason you don't have Tools located at the top of your My Documents
folder then go to your Control Panel and look through that for Folder
Options.

 

[Jim]

They're in the computer, but if you want to email a pic from My
Pictures you don't want to email every picture on your computer just
to get the right one.

The only time a picture has a URL is if it is the shortcut to a
picture on the web and not on the computer .
If you d/l the picture , you wouldn`t get a URL .

 

[Steve Hayes]

The only time a picture has a URL is if it is the shortcut to a
picture on the web and not on the computer .
If you d/l the picture , you wouldn`t get a URL .

Unless your computer is also a web server.

 

[James]

Unless your computer is also a web server.

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web:  http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog:http://methodius.blogspot.com
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I should have tried this sooner-Go to.My Computer>Right Click>My
Pictures>Send shortcut to Desktop.

James