Vista default photo editor

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I know there was a program supplied with XP along the lines of Microsoft Photo Editor or something like that. It would open gifs and jpegs and would allow you to do very basic editing. Has this disappeared in Vista? I can't find anything of the sort, except for paint, which doesn't seem to have the features of Photo Editor. I don't really want to have to open up Photoshop for each jpeg.

At the moment, whenever I try and open a jpg, gif, or similar in Vista it will ask for a program which it can use to open the file. Is this normal behaviour? There is no program associated with these file types.

 

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Sorry...I've done it again! I keep finding my own answers

What happened to Photo Editor?

Microsoft Photo Editor has been discontinued as a Microsoft Office component as of Microsoft Office 2003.

It has been replaced by Microsoft Office Picture Manager. While Picture Manager is primarily a file management tool, and not an editing tool, it does have some image correction and editing features.

For a broad range of editing options when working with pictures, the best approach is to work with a photo editing program, such as Microsoft Digital Image Pro.

Or, if you upgraded from Office XP, you can re-install Photo Editor from your Microsoft Office XP CD-ROM.

Courtesy of Microsoft Office Help