Vista won't open pictures with Picture Viewer

[tophee]

Hi,
Anyone got a clue how I can solve this little issue?
When I try and open any sort of picture in Vista, for example a jpeg I get a message saying "This picture can't be displayed. You might not have enough memory available. Try closing some programs or, if your harddrive is almost full, free some disk space and try again." I've over 105gb left on my c: drive.

With the last picture file I tried to open it just sat there thinking about it, until I clicked on the slide show and it went through every picture in the file without a issue.

However, I can see thumbnails of said image, and I can view said image as part of a slide show, just not in Windows Photo Gallery. It is very annoying.

My system is running Vista Ultimate 64 bit, Intel Pentium D @3 G. 2 G DDR2 ram and an ati 3580 256mb graphics card.

Any thoughts? I'm sure it used to work.

Regards Chris

 

[andshrew]

I've had this problem. For me it was caused by an updated monitor driver which appeared on Windows Update. Rolling back to the previous version of the driver fixed it.

See http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17816198

 

[tophee]

Ah, that is exactly it. I've the same monitor. Thanks.

edit: Actually, what I did was uninstall the driver and checked the delete driver checkbox. Job done. As I'd just gotten around to install service patch 1 for Vista I decided against the roll back. More hassle than it's worth!