Photo Printing Wizard

[j. galloway]

Hello All,

I e-mailed a picture of a car to myself at home from
work. I opened the picture inside "windows picture and
fax viewer". I selected "print from the lower menu icons.
The "the photo printing wizard" welcome box opened. When
I hit next, the car I wanted to print was thumbnailed in
the proof sheet, but, to my amamzement, there were also
about 12 more "very naughty" pictures thumbnailed there
also. This only happens when you try to print from "the
wizard". Prints fine from inside Explorer.
These are pictures that I have not intentionally viewed
nor do I think anyone else in the family brought them up
purposely. We have run Spysweeper / Norton anti-virus
with no luck. We have searched the Hard-drive and can not
find where these images are stored. Any help is
appreciated, either in solving this problem, or in
further readings.

Thanks for your time, jeff

 

[Husky]

Fire up http://www.irfanview.com/ [irfanview] select the C:\Documents and
Settings\your_name\My Documents\My Pictures folder.
This is the folder my windows picture and fax viewer defaults to opening. I'd
say the images you're looking at are located in this folder.

spysweeper and Norton anti virus won't find images.

 

[j. galloway]

We looked there and they aren't there

-----Original Message-----

Fire up http://www.irfanview.com/ [irfanview] select the C:\Documents and
Settings\your_name\My Documents\My Pictures folder.
This is the folder my windows picture and fax viewer defaults to opening. I'd
say the images you're looking at are located in this folder.

spysweeper and Norton anti virus won't find images.

Hello All,

I e-mailed a picture of a car to myself at home from
work. I opened the picture inside "windows picture and
fax viewer". I selected "print from the lower menu icons.
The "the photo printing wizard" welcome box opened. When
I hit next, the car I wanted to print was thumbnailed in
the proof sheet, but, to my amamzement, there were also
about 12 more "very naughty" pictures thumbnailed there
also. This only happens when you try to print from "the
wizard". Prints fine from inside Explorer.
These are pictures that I have not intentionally viewed
nor do I think anyone else in the family brought them up
purposely. We have run Spysweeper / Norton anti-virus
with no luck. We have searched the Hard-drive and can not
find where these images are stored. Any help is
appreciated, either in solving this problem, or in
further readings.

Thanks for your time, jeff

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

In the My Pictures folder, delete the thumbs.db file. Now try the Wizard
again. Are they now gone?
--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

We looked there and they aren't there

-----Original Message-----

Fire up http://www.irfanview.com/ [irfanview] select the C:\Documents and
Settings\your_name\My Documents\My Pictures folder.
This is the folder my windows picture and fax viewer defaults to opening. I'd
say the images you're looking at are located in this folder.

spysweeper and Norton anti virus won't find images.

Hello All,

I e-mailed a picture of a car to myself at home from
work. I opened the picture inside "windows picture and
fax viewer". I selected "print from the lower menu icons.
The "the photo printing wizard" welcome box opened. When
I hit next, the car I wanted to print was thumbnailed in
the proof sheet, but, to my amamzement, there were also
about 12 more "very naughty" pictures thumbnailed there
also. This only happens when you try to print from "the
wizard". Prints fine from inside Explorer.
These are pictures that I have not intentionally viewed
nor do I think anyone else in the family brought them up
purposely. We have run Spysweeper / Norton anti-virus
with no luck. We have searched the Hard-drive and can not
find where these images are stored. Any help is
appreciated, either in solving this problem, or in
further readings.

Thanks for your time, jeff

 

[John Inzer]

Hello All,

I e-mailed a picture of a car to myself at home from
work. I opened the picture inside "windows picture and
fax viewer". I selected "print from the lower menu icons.
The "the photo printing wizard" welcome box opened. When
I hit next, the car I wanted to print was thumbnailed in
the proof sheet, but, to my amamzement, there were also
about 12 more "very naughty" pictures thumbnailed there
also. This only happens when you try to print from "the
wizard". Prints fine from inside Explorer.
These are pictures that I have not intentionally viewed
nor do I think anyone else in the family brought them up
purposely. We have run Spysweeper / Norton anti-virus
with no luck. We have searched the Hard-drive and can not
find where these images are stored. Any help is
appreciated, either in solving this problem, or in
further readings.

Thanks for your time, jeff

=================================
The unwanted images you are seeing are
in your Temporary Internet Files folder. The
following articles should help you empty the
folder.

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

--

John Inzer
Picture It! MVP
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Picture It! Support Center
http://tinyurl.com/2po2o

Digital Image Support Center
http://tinyurl.com/3xxqg

 

[Husky]

On Tues, 23 Nov 2004 10:49:41 -0800, "j. galloway"

I'll go along with delete thumbs.db in that folder, but IIRC thumbs.db updates
itself every time it enters a directory, which would mean the pix are still
there.

You might try what I did and find you have maybe a dozen temporary directories.
Start -> search -> all files and folders -> temporary.

Another option if you have a geek in the house, would be to make sure your
pictures directory hasn't been moved.

to find out exactly which directory is being used by your picture viewer, Try
this..

Start -> help and support -> search term = 'windows picture and fax viewer'. I
got one hit myself. 'Seeing images with Windows Picture Viewer'. use the
pictures link on this help and it should dump you directly into your default
picture directory.

Then try irfanview and see if the pix are there. Also see that irfanview is set
to display the type images. You can set the setting to all image types.

We looked there and they aren't there

-----Original Message-----

Fire up http://www.irfanview.com/ [irfanview] select the C:\Documents and
Settings\your_name\My Documents\My Pictures folder.
This is the folder my windows picture and fax viewer defaults to opening. I'd
say the images you're looking at are located in this folder.

spysweeper and Norton anti virus won't find images.

Hello All,

I e-mailed a picture of a car to myself at home from
work. I opened the picture inside "windows picture and
fax viewer". I selected "print from the lower menu icons.
The "the photo printing wizard" welcome box opened. When
I hit next, the car I wanted to print was thumbnailed in
the proof sheet, but, to my amamzement, there were also
about 12 more "very naughty" pictures thumbnailed there
also. This only happens when you try to print from "the
wizard". Prints fine from inside Explorer.
These are pictures that I have not intentionally viewed
nor do I think anyone else in the family brought them up
purposely. We have run Spysweeper / Norton anti-virus
with no luck. We have searched the Hard-drive and can not
find where these images are stored. Any help is
appreciated, either in solving this problem, or in
further readings.

Thanks for your time, jeff

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| Hello All,
|
| I e-mailed a picture of a car to myself at home from
| work. I opened the picture inside "windows picture and
| fax viewer". I selected "print from the lower menu icons.
| The "the photo printing wizard" welcome box opened. When
| I hit next, the car I wanted to print was thumbnailed in
| the proof sheet, but, to my amamzement, there were also
| about 12 more "very naughty" pictures thumbnailed there
| also. This only happens when you try to print from "the
| wizard". Prints fine from inside Explorer.
| These are pictures that I have not intentionally viewed
| nor do I think anyone else in the family brought them up
| purposely. We have run Spysweeper / Norton anti-virus
| with no luck. We have searched the Hard-drive and can not
| find where these images are stored. Any help is
| appreciated, either in solving this problem, or in
| further readings.
|
| Thanks for your time, jeff

John Inzer has supplied the correct answer already, but to further
explain...
You can't view a picture unless the image file is on your hard drive. In the
case of images from the internet or e-mail attachments, when you
double-click on them to view them the first thing that happens is that the
image is copied to a file in your Temporary Internet Files (TIF) folder, and
after the image is safely stored, it appears on your screen. Mr. Inzer also
provided instructions for clearing that folder. What you should know is
that the only way those "very naughty" images could have come to be in the
TIF folder was if someone had viewed them on your computer. It's possible
that the viewing was incidental and accidental, but the images didn't just
fly out of the ether and save themselves.

 

[Yves Alarie]

If deleting your temporary files did not do the trick, try the following.

If these are files were downloaded from or e-
mail, they may be in a subfolder of your Internet temporary files. The
folder
name will start with OLK and there will be a number after OLK. The easiest
way to find this folder it is to search for OLK* and once found open it and
see if the
files are there.
Click on Start and Search and then
All files and folders
More advanced options
Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders
In the top textbox "All or part..." type in exactly this
OLK*
and click search
This search will take a while but should return all
folders starting with
OLK.
Open the folders, change the view to Thumbnails and see
if the unwanted
files are there. If so, just select them and delete. They
will go to your Recycle bin, delete them from there also. Or, hold the Shift
key down when you delete them in order to prevent them from going into your
Recycle bin.