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Old 08-02-2007   #3 (permalink)
Ian Betts


 
 

Re: "windows photo gallery cannot open picture or video........."



"feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8D089740-CDAB-4FB9-B3CC-C63714BDC88F@microsoft.com...
> Every time I select 'view pictures in windows photo gallery' from the auto
> play pop up, it opens up the windows photo gallery with an error "windows
> photo gallery cannot open picture or video. either the file format is not
> supported or you dont have the latest updates for windows photo gallery"
> on a
> window titled 'index.vpm'
> However when I click on the next or previous button to view the pictures,
> they show up fine. I was just wondering if I really need some updates for
> windows (My vista ultimate says that windows is upto date) else my
> pictures
> are non supported file format (How come they do open fine with the left
> and
> the right arrow).
> please help, I dont want to see the error when I preview my SD card
> pictures
> using the photo gallery via the auto play pop up.
> I am able to explore my SD card and preview the selected pictures without
> any problems.
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>

Photo Gallery is only a viewing program. It clearly cannot open that format;
VPM is normally a text format. I suggest you check want format your pics
are. Normally when you click a pic in PG it will open the pic in the Photo
program you may have like Photo Shop.

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Ian

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