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Tony I am a novice with a laptop on vista. I tried to put the software for photocam and it crashed my computer. Saying vista does not take this software, I am looking for a software to put in so I can put my pictures from my camera to it and size it to put in ebay.  Can you help and suggest something?

Thanks,Carole

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 Is there a way I can get the MS Scanner and Camera Wizard on my laptop that has Vista?  I really do NOT like the way the pictures download with Vista (no preview available to see the pictures I want to download before the download starts and save, is my biggest peeve).  Plus I must immediately name the group and it’s too quick to ask me if I want to delete them.

I don’t usually delete photos from my camera/card until I have downloaded and burned them to a disk.  So if I take more pictures, when I go to do the download, it gathers ALL the pictures I’ve taken and groups them.  Grrrrrrrrr

Maybe I’m being stubborn to change, but I tried playing around with the Vista download from my camera for over 2 hours (trying different things) and I still wasn’t happy and went back and downloaded the pictures on my PC with Windows XP.

Is there a way to change settings for the picture download in Vista (I can’t seem to find them) or is it possible to get the MSSCW on my laptop.

Thanks a bunch!

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Riccardo Raneri demonstrates how to use a free tool from Microsoft, Group Photo Fixer. To use it for your next group photo, take several shots of the group. That’s a good idea anyway–with digital cameras, pictures are free, but so many people still only take a single photo. After you load your pictures onto your computer, if you discover that no one photo has everyone smiling with their eyes open, you can swap a person’s face from another photo. Give it a shot.

Update: James O’ Neill provides another interesting use for this tool–removing moving objects from a still image, such as crowds or cars walking in front of what you want to shoot. I could have used that in Pompeii.

Lifehacker offered a post about how to use your My Pictures folder as a screensaver in Windows XP. Here are the steps to do that in Vista:

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