Vista - Windows Photo Gallery (rubbish)

Morlan · 27 Feb 2008 at 17:55

What happened to the XP Picture & Fax Viewer? Now we have this bloated "Photo Gallery" that takes ages to open a simple JPEG. :rolleyes:

When I double click a picture file, I expect to see it NOW, not 5 seconds later.

Anyone else feel this pain? Any alternatives?

Dazzy_G · 27 Feb 2008 at 17:58

maybe you should turn off some of the fancy stuff? As my photo gallery thing loads up just as fast as the XP one did.

modo77 · 27 Feb 2008 at 17:59

Some vid drivers cause that problem, it appears instantly here.

Morlan · 27 Feb 2008 at 18:34

OK, the delay happens when I click on an image after a fresh reboot, so Vista obviously has to load the Photo Gallery into memory; after that, it loads images instantly.

But still, I don't need ANY of the features that Photo Gallery offers. I just need something simple like the XP Picture viewer.

Anything that will keep my memory usage to a minimun is good by me.

Any suggestions?

TheVoice · 27 Feb 2008 at 18:50

Vista has and uses a simple picture viewer. The Photo Gallery shouldn't be loading unless you've told it to.

Dazzy_G · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:05

TheVoice said:
Vista has and uses a simple picture viewer. The Photo Gallery shouldn't be loading unless you've told it to.

Whats that then? as i only have the Widows Photo Gallery app.

TheVoice · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:25

Hmm...actually now that you mention it, it's actually just called Windows Photo Gallery. Loads instantly though; no different to the Picture Viewer in XP.

Dazzy_G · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:31

indeed, if you click the button in the top left, it loads up in what i'd call a photo gallery, that took a bit of time for me but my pictures directory is huge.

Mattus · 28 Feb 2008 at 01:00

IrfanView

Great little program.

sunlitsix · 28 Feb 2008 at 01:23

Morlan said:
When I double click a picture file, I expect to see it NOW, not 5 seconds later.

well when i double click a picture, i get a blank white screen.
and it stays that way too

Wzd · 28 Feb 2008 at 11:32

Has anyone else noticed the zoom isnt as good on Vista WPG? When I zoom in now the picture gets blocky around edges/lines in the image, even on the first zoom...XP PFV used to smooth these out!!

Eriedor · 28 Feb 2008 at 13:02

Mine loads instantly even on first boot and I hardly use it so it's unlikely it has been cached by superfetch.