Slide show in XP?

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Jeff

I think there is a graphic program in XP Home that lets you view jpg and
other images as a running "slideshow" but I cannot find it. Can someone
point me in the right direction?

Jeff
 
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Jeff said:
I think there is a graphic program in XP Home that lets you
view jpg and other images as a running "slideshow" but I
cannot find it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Jeff
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Take your pick.

1. Go to Start -> Help and Support and search for "View as
slide show".

2. Go to Start -> Run.
Copy and paste the following in the Open box,

hh.exe
ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\filefold.chm::/windows_fcab_slideshow.htm

Click OK.

3. Open up a folder which has image files.
Look in the left hand column under Picture Tasks for "View as
slide show".

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
You must have folder options set to show common tasks.Kindly check that.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
 
Hi Jeff:

If your default image viewer is Window Picture and Fax, you should be able
to just double-click the image you want to view and then click the icon at
the bottom of the screen that looks like a tiny projector screen. You might
also want to explore the rest of the bottons on this tool bar. In addition,
Tweak UI, a free MS utility, has many cool, hassle-free ways to adjust what
Windows does with images and many other objects:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakui.asp

Mark
 
Thanks. I have my folder options set as "Use Classic Windows folders" and
therefore slideshow was not in the menu.

Now I know how to do it. Thank you.

It would be nice if I could set "Use Classic Windows folders" for all my
folders but have the option "show Common Tasks" only effective for the
specific folders where I keep my images. I guess not.

Jeff


S.Sengupta said:
You must have folder options set to show common tasks.Kindly check
that.
regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
I think there is a graphic program in XP Home that lets you view jpg
and other images as a running "slideshow" but I cannot find it. Can
someone point me in the right direction?

Jeff
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Thank you Mark.

I prefer to use PaintShop Pro as the default image viewer because I use it
work on the images. Does Window Picture and Fax exist as a separate program
I can call up for slide shows when I wish to? I cannot find it as a separate
application on my drive.

Jeff
 
7:39 AM 6/17/2006

Jeff:

I have not used PaintShop Pro and Google spun out a million paintshop blah
blah blah. Is that the Corel software?

I use a different image editor but I have found Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer (WPFV) to be much faster for browsing images and then when I encounter
an image I want to work on, one of the buttons on the toolbar at the bottom
of the WPFV window opens the image into the image editor I have selected as
default.

I believe Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is an integral part of XP but I do
not know where it resides. If you would like to make it the default viewer
(browser) for any particular image file type, just right click any image icon
and choose "Properties". In the Properties dialog box, click the "Change"
button to the right of "Opens With...". Choose Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer. This would have to be repeated for .JPG, .BMP, etc.

Explore the toolbar along the bottom. You can click to view images in any
given file as a slide show or manually browse images with the mouse or cursor
keys.

There is a button on the toolbar at the bottom of the WPFV window which will
open the image into the image editor you have chosen as default.

One word of caution: I would not use WPFV for any manipulation of the
image, i.e. "rotate"-- there could be irretrievable, unintended consequences.

If you do NOT want to make WPFV your default image browser, you can still
open it for use as a slideshow generator by right-clicking any image and
choosing 'Open With".

Post again if you have any further questions.

Mark
 
Thank you. This is the suggestion that I find suits me best. Because I use
the Classic view in my XP folders (and thus do not have the common tasks
with "view as slideshow" visible), I find that just right clicking on an
image and opening with Windows Picture and Fax viewer works fine for my
purposes. and the icon at the bottom opens the image into my default PSP
when I want to edit it.

Yes PSP has now been acquired by Corel. Great inexpensive software, unless
Corel messes it up. What do you use?

Jeff
 
2:45 PM 6/17/2006

Jeff:

Glad that seems to have helped. I rarely have to do anything very fancy
with images except to caption photos (about 200 a week), or perhaps draw a
red arrow or two, so I use the image editor included with XP called "Paint"
(written by Corel?).

Corel seems to have a history of screwing up good software. I have not used
any Corel software since they bought out WordPerfect-- what a fiasco for us
WP fans. LOL I have learned to limp along with MS Word but I truly miss the
"Reveal Codes" and other features in WP 6.0 for DOS. It was lightning fast
and easy to troubleshoot.

Happy Computing!!

Mark
 
PS: I would still download the latest version of the power toy called Tweak
UI. Amoung many outstanding attirbutes, it has a few features for the
slideshow such as easlily setting the speed at which the slides change.
 
Looks like we are computing twins. I too go back to WordPerfect and dearly
miss their Reveal codes. (I especially miss the DOS WP 5.1 version). The
PSP I have is version 9, the last version produced by Jasc before it was
bought by Corel.

Jeff
 
By jove, it WAS WP 5.1 DOS, not 6.0. I'll give you $1,000,000 if you can
remember which key invoked Reveal codes.
 
Jeff said:
Best thing since sliced bread. Only went downhill with bloat from
there.
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WordPerfect for DOS? I don't agree. I'm a happy user of the current version
of WordPerfect, X3 for Windows. I don't think any of the recent releases
have made any particularly significant improvements, but I also don't think
it's gone downhill at all.
 
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