Big Problem with Vista - Please Help!

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I have all the usual difficulties with Vista and can deal with most, however,
as a photographer, I am lost without the basic functions which help me
organize my tens of thousands of photographs.

Can anyone please tell me how with Vista, I can.....

1. Add a filmstrip view to my options as the "extra large" thumbnail icons
are too tiny to be of use.

and Most importantly

2. Add "move the selected items" and "copy the selected items" to my task
bar as the drag and drop method is waaaay too clumsy and time consuming.

Right now I have to do all my work on my $3000 dream computer, in the free
software program IrfanView, which I am grateful for.

How could the developers of Vista make such blatent errors when creating
Vista?

Can anyone suggest solutions?

Thanks!
 
Hi Keith,

The filmstrip view is no longer supported in Vista. I am surprised that you
find the large icon view too small, becuase those icons are actually larger
than the old XP filmstrip view. Nonetheless, we hope that most users will
switch to using the Widnows Photo Galelry for managing and organizing their
photos. Photo Gallery was intedned t be a more powerful and flexible place
to work with photos than the Pictures folder (ie, Windows Explorer).

As to your question about copy and paste, if you don't like using drag and
drop, you might want to use keyboard shortcuts instead -- that would
actually be significantly more efficient than clicking buttons in the
toolbar. You can press CTRL-C, CTRL-V to copy files or folders.

I hope this helps.
 
Hi Dave,

Sadly no, that doesn't help as I'm not looking to copy and paste folders or
pictures. I need to move pictures to various folders on a regular basis
which I was able to do with XP and cannot do with Vista. I'm hoping that an
update will become available to fix this blatant ommission as sadly Gateway
won't replace my defective Vista operating system with XP. Without a
filmstrip view, even getting back my copy and move functions won't be of much
use as I need the large image in the filmstrip view to know whether a photo
needs to be moved or deleted. It's amazing to me that Vista made it this far
without anyone realizing that such basic and manditory functions were
forgotten.
 
Hi,
I use the "send to" to transfer files from one location to another. I
would add a new location folder, or drive designation by was also stimied
until I got the correct command prompt to modify the send to command.
The information is just a few questions above yours look for the question
"Customize Send to command"
Hopefully that's what ou want to do. I found drag & drop a waste of time,
easier to select and transfer, but it only will copy it to the other file
folder or drive the original will have to be deleted.
 
Keith said:
I have all the usual difficulties with Vista and can deal with most,
however,
as a photographer, I am lost without the basic functions which help me
organize my tens of thousands of photographs.
Click to expand...

I don't know how big you need your thumbnails, but XYplorer (a Windows
Explorer Replacement) offers them up to 320x320 by default, and if that's
not enough you can tweak it to generate thumbs at virtually any size you
need. (Ask me and I tell you how.)
Also, XYplorer has a feature you might like called "Mouse Down Blow Up":
mouse down on a thumbnail blows it up to the original size (optionally
shrunk to fit screen), mouse up and it's back to thumb size. Very, very
practical! (I'm a photographer myself).

Concerning your "move the selected items" and "copy the selected items"
demands: XYplorer offers a MoveTo and a CopyTo dialog which remembers a list
of previously used destinations. It's extremely easy and effective to use (I
know since I use it 50 times a day).

If you spend $3000 for a computer you might spend another $30 for a file
manager that does its job ;)

http://www.xyplorer.com/

HTH,
Don
 
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