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William B. Lurie

My XP Home/SP2 seems to be missing something. My cousin came
here with a plug-in memory stick of pictures and he captures
them and stored them in Desktop somewhere and can click them
open one at a time, but says my OS is missing something that
came built-in on his, to make a slide show of them. What
Microsoft XP software can I download and install to put this in? Thanks.
 
Right click on one of the pictures & see if you can "open with" & then
select Windows Picture & Fax Viewer"?
If so, once you get that picture open in it, go down to the slideshow icon
below the picture.
If that choice isn't there, come back & tell us.
 
Bruce, the whole row of icons is there and it makes the
slide show, so I guess that accomplishes what I wanted.
But when my cousin tickled the keys on his laptop to
show me, he produced a vertical drop-down menu of several
parts (but I didn't look at what it showed). He seemed
surprised that he couldn't find it on my desktop computer.
Does that make any sense, and if so, could you lead me to it?
Thank you.
 
My XP Home/SP2 seems to be missing something. My cousin came
here with a plug-in memory stick of pictures and he captures
them and stored them in Desktop somewhere and can click them
open one at a time, but says my OS is missing something that
came built-in on his, to make a slide show of them. What
Microsoft XP software can I download and install to put this in? Thanks.
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Customize a folder that has pictures to be a picture folder. Once it is a
picture folder (which a folder taken right from a camera or camera memory
stick would be) it has slideshow capability added that is not present in
other folder types.

To customize the folder: right click> properties> customize | choose one of
the picture folder options.

If you still do not see the same thing your cousin had, check that you're
using XP style folders and not classic folders. Also, he may have a Media
Center feature that is not available in XP Home. (I'm not real familiar
with Media Center XP so can't be more exact - sorry!) There's always the
possibility that this was something added by a graphics or photo editing
program he has installed too.

The title for the following article seems to be only about Filmstrip but it
mentions slideshow too:

Filmstrip View Is Not Available
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299542/en-us
 
Sharon said:
Customize a folder that has pictures to be a picture folder. Once it is a
picture folder (which a folder taken right from a camera or camera memory
stick would be) it has slideshow capability added that is not present in
other folder types.

To customize the folder: right click> properties> customize | choose one of
the picture folder options.

If you still do not see the same thing your cousin had, check that you're
using XP style folders and not classic folders. Also, he may have a Media
Center feature that is not available in XP Home. (I'm not real familiar
with Media Center XP so can't be more exact - sorry!) There's always the
possibility that this was something added by a graphics or photo editing
program he has installed too.

The title for the following article seems to be only about Filmstrip but it
mentions slideshow too:

Filmstrip View Is Not Available
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299542/en-us
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Thanks for all the good advice, Sharon. My cousin is a
"Senior Regional Service Specialist" with Toshiba, so
I'll be that he has a LOT of software that doesn't come
built-into XP Home.
 
Thanks for all the good advice, Sharon. My cousin is a
"Senior Regional Service Specialist" with Toshiba, so
I'll be that he has a LOT of software that doesn't come
built-into XP Home.
Click to expand...

:)
 
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