The only thing I miss about WindowsME

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I recently upgraded my OS to Win2k...now the only thing that I miss from
WindowsME is the slideshow function in Explorer when viewing picture
folders. Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
not interested in a separate slideshow type program.

Hope this makes sense.
Thanks.
 
five said:
I recently upgraded my OS to Win2k...now the only thing that I miss from
WindowsME is the slideshow function in Explorer when viewing picture
folders. Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
not interested in a separate slideshow type program.

Hope this makes sense.
Thanks.
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Irfanview. Enable the context menu item.

http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/

And by the way, ME does this by using a separate program by Kodak.
 
I recently upgraded my OS to Win2k...now the only thing that I miss from
WindowsME is the slideshow function in Explorer when viewing picture
folders. Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
not interested in a separate slideshow type program.
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Just steal the Windows "My Pictures" screen saver from ME.

Bob
 
five wrote in said:
Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
not interested in a separate slideshow type program.
Click to expand...

Then you should be asking in a microsoft.* group. This group is about
freeware, don'tcha know...
 
DC wrote:
|| five wrote in <[email protected]>:
||| Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
||| not interested in a separate slideshow type program.
||
|| Then you should be asking in a microsoft.* group. This group is
|| about freeware, don'tcha know...
||
|| --
|| DC

I was interested in a shell extension/context menu add-in...I think this
qualifies as a freeware request. It was answered by John Corliss with a
freeware suggestion.

Then you came along.
 
Stephen wrote:
|| Win2k was before WinMe so you have downgraded.....was it easy?
||
||
||| I recently upgraded my OS to Win2k...now the only thing that I miss
||| from WindowsME is the slideshow function in Explorer when viewing
||| picture folders. Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this
||| functionality? I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type
||| program.
|||
||| Hope this makes sense.
||| Thanks.

Believe me, WinME to Win2k is no downgrade. Yes, it was totally
straightforward - everything that I previously had working under ME works
with 2k and now I don't have to re-boot my laptop every 6 hours.

:)
 
Bob Adkins wrote:
||
||| I recently upgraded my OS to Win2k...now the only thing that I miss
||| from WindowsME is the slideshow function in Explorer when viewing
||| picture folders. Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this
||| functionality? I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type
||| program.
||
|| Just steal the Windows "My Pictures" screen saver from ME.
||
|| Bob

I don't have an OEM ME Disk, my laptop came with ME pre-loaded and a simple
rescue disk to restore it to its factory settings. I wouldn't know how to
steal the screen-saver from it or even if it exists on the rescue disk, so
I'll be going down the IrfanView route suggested in another thread.
Thanks anyway, though...I'm sure your suggestion will be of help to someone.
 
John Corliss wrote:
|| five wrote:
||
||| I recently upgraded my OS to Win2k...now the only thing that I miss
||| from WindowsME is the slideshow function in Explorer when viewing
||| picture folders. Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this
||| functionality? I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type
||| program.
|||
||| Hope this makes sense.
||| Thanks.
||
|| Irfanview. Enable the context menu item.
||
|| http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
||
|| And by the way, ME does this by using a separate program by Kodak.
||
|| --
|| Regards from John Corliss

Many Thanks. DL'ing now.

:)
 
five wrote in said:
DC wrote:
|| five wrote in <[email protected]>:
||| Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
||| not interested in a separate slideshow type program.
||
|| Then you should be asking in a microsoft.* group. This group is
|| about freeware, don'tcha know...
Click to expand...
I was interested in a shell extension/context menu add-in...I think this
qualifies as a freeware request.
Click to expand...

Yes, it does.

But you said, "I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type program."
It was answered by John Corliss with a freeware suggestion.
Click to expand...

But you said, "I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type program."

So, you *did* want a freeware solution -- and an 817KB solution[1], no
less?
Then you came along.
Click to expand...

.... and provided you with a redirect to a more appropriate group, in an
effort to help *you* solve *your* problem.

Don't like it? Learn how to express yourself more clearly.

HAND

[1] Irfanview was precisely the solution I had in mind, until you
said... well, we know what you said. Not that it matters, apparently.

}:O\
 
DC wrote:
|| five wrote in <[email protected]>:
||| DC wrote:
||||| five wrote in <[email protected]>:
|||||| Does anyone have any ideas how to regain this functionality? I'm
|||||| not interested in a separate slideshow type program.
|||||
||||| Then you should be asking in a microsoft.* group. This group is
||||| about freeware, don'tcha know...
||
||| I was interested in a shell extension/context menu add-in...I think
||| this qualifies as a freeware request.
||
|| Yes, it does.
||
|| But you said, "I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type
|| program."
||
||| It was answered by John Corliss with a freeware suggestion.
||
|| But you said, "I'm not interested in a separate slideshow type
|| program."
||
|| So, you *did* want a freeware solution -- and an 817KB solution[1],
|| no less?
||
||| Then you came along.
||
|| ... and provided you with a redirect to a more appropriate group, in
|| an effort to help *you* solve *your* problem.
||
|| Don't like it? Learn how to express yourself more clearly.

All of your comments are fair... I'm afraid that somewhere in the decision
making process /I changed my mind/ and I apologise if this provoked you. I
didn't realise that IrfanView had this functionality.

regards,
five
 
five wrote in said:
DC wrote:
|| five wrote in <[email protected]>:
[snip]

||| Then you came along.
||
|| ... and provided you with a redirect to a more appropriate group, in
|| an effort to help *you* solve *your* problem.
||
|| Don't like it? Learn how to express yourself more clearly.
Click to expand...
All of your comments are fair... I'm afraid that somewhere in the decision
making process /I changed my mind/ and I apologise if this provoked you. I
didn't realise that IrfanView had this functionality.
Click to expand...

Thank you.

I wasn't provoked by the fact that you changed your mind -- that would
be ludicrous. Free will. It is your parting shot, preserved above,
that rubbed me the wrong way.

Anyway, it doesn't matter -- water under the bridge. I'm happy you
solved your problem.

Have a nice day. }:O)
 
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