Vista - Photo Gallery changes Modified Date

Hello guys,

I have been using Windows XP for years. Recently I installed Windows Vista
Ultimate. Before Vista there was a great product called Windows Pictures and
Fax Viewer which also has a feature to change Picture layout (rotate
left/right). The nice thing about it was that while changing the layout it
did not change the file's Modified Date.

Now, in Vista's Photo Gallery, this feature is missing. I mean, you can
still rotate pictures, but it changes the Modified date to todays date. This
is not good, as the pictures then are not arranged properly by date/time, and
the only way to arrange them is to use Date Taken attribute (which is not
standard file attribute and only present in .jpg files).

I would like you to advise:
1. how to setup Photo Gallery that it does not change last Modified Date on
changing the picture layout.
2. Alternatively, please advice is it possible to install XP's Picture and
Fax viewer on Vista.

I hope you will include this wish list in your enhancement list and update
the system to have this functionality in Photo Gallery.


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You cannot install Picture and Fax Viewer on Vista.

Sort by Date Taken. Why is that a problem?
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"Andrew" <Andrew@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:16A8E538-1C01-419D-A04C-B25FC1E2166F@xxxxxx

Thanks Bob for your very helpful reply.

In fact, I did some homework and found that it is impossible to install
Picture and Fax Viewer on Vista. BTW, if you type 'Picture and Fax Viewer on
Vista' in google you would find that there are some many people out there
desperately trying to return back good old Picture and Fax Viewer you'll
probably start thinking that probably Microsoft has a problem here. Why
remove good old stuff from new programs?

RE: Sort by date taken.
Yes, you are right, I can sort by this column. BUT,
1. Not ALL pictures have this tag
2. Not all file managers display this column.

Actually, I marked the original post as 'Suggestion for Microsoft', not as a
technical support question.

"Bob" wrote:

Thank you Bob for your helpful reply.

In fact, I did some homework and know that it is impossible to install
Picture and Fax Viewer on Vista. BTW, if you type 'Picture and Fax Viewer on
Vista' in google you would find that a lot of people out there desperately
trying to return good old Picture and Fax Viewer to 'brand new Vista'. And,
actually a guy found a way to install it on Vista, but he does not know how
(something to do with Ofiice 2003).

I marked the original post as 'Suggestion for Microsoft', because I do
believe that when you develop something new you should take good stuff from
previous programs, and apply new features on top of that.

RE: Sorting by Date taken.
You cannot always sort by this tag because:
1. Not all pictures have this tag (try to create an image in MSPAINT and
save it as .jpg)
2. This tag is not always visible in explorer (depends on content)

Regards,
Andrew


"Bob" wrote:

"Andrew" <Andrew@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9CC5440F-EA94-49AD-8410-22CC32B5E255@xxxxxxYou're welcome.

I'm curious. Which pictures don't have this tag?
Use a file manager that does. i.e. Windows Explorer.
Regardless of how many suggestions are made, it's doubtful they will make
the change. You might like Paint.NET which is a free full-featured photo
editing program.
http://www.getpaint.net/