Lost the Picture Tasks pane

[Charlie Bress]

A neighbor is running XP Pro wit SP2. She wants to show .jpg files using the
slideshow in My Pictures>Picture Tasks.

The problem is that the Picture Tasks pane that is supposed to be at the
left of that of the screen is missing. A search of the knowledge base took
me to KB291257.
This didn't really help. Taking a clue from that article, I removed all the
files from My Pictures and copied them to a flash drive. Then I restarted My
Pictures and copied back a single folder with about a dozen pictures. No
joy.

How can the Picture Tasks pane be restored?

Charlie

 

[Elmo]

A neighbor is running XP Pro wit SP2. She wants to show .jpg files using the
slideshow in My Pictures, Picture Tasks.

The problem is that the Picture Tasks pane that is supposed to be at the
left of that of the screen is missing. A search of the knowledge base took
me to KB291257.
This didn't really help. Taking a clue from that article, I removed all the
files from My Pictures and copied them to a flash drive. Then I restarted My
Pictures and copied back a single folder with about a dozen pictures. No
joy.

How can the Picture Tasks pane be restored?

Charlie

Add Common Tasks.
Click Start, Run - Type:

control folders ( Press {ENTER} key)

Select "Show common tasks in folders"
Click OK.