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Digital photo/ computer help ....please

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Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 22 Jun 2010 21:04

I hope someone can point me in the right direction here .
I have a digital camera and when I put the little card thingy in the PC the pics go straight into Windows photo gallery , all nice and simple........until today .
We bought our daughter a camera for her birthday and she has loaded her software into the PC and now it's hijacked my photos . I'm not to quick at this computer stuff and I don't have the foggiest idea how to get my images to go where I want them .
Any ideas anyone ?? please

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 22 Jun 2010 21:11

you need to make windows the default viewing programme.

tools - folder options - file types....scroll down to JPEG files and choose windows as the default programme for viewing.

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 22 Jun 2010 21:33

Thank you Eldrick.....I shall go and attempt your instructions....thank you for making that nice and simple : ))

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 22 Jun 2010 21:46

Blast it !! I just knew it wasn't going to be that simple .

I think that because the soft ware that came with my daughters camera is more advanced than mine was , it's taken over .

Maybe I'll just try tinkering about for a bit and see if I can get used to this style of things ( have to confess it's making the photos look far better than usual , so all is not lost I suppose ) .

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 22 Jun 2010 21:50

No, it's just set itself as the default image viewer. Did it not work when you tried to change it? What programme is it?

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 22 Jun 2010 21:58

I've been looking at the default settings and they are on Windows Photo gallery , but the Olympus " thing " comes up when I put the SD card into the PC .

Sorry but I'm really quite dense when it comes to computers .

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 22 Jun 2010 22:07

Ahhh, lol. Gotcha.

And it organises everything into it's own folders....?

Simples. When the olympus programme comes up, just close it and c&p your pics from my computer.

Open my computer, find your SD card (probably drive F or similar), open it, copy your pics and paste them where you want to. Or you can delete the programme if you don't like it.

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 22 Jun 2010 22:15

That's the one , hence the reason I feel hijacked . It takes the photos and " organises " them , with lots of " face " recognition whistles and bells !!

There doesn't appear to be a " close " option on the Olympus logo that comes up but I'll go and have another look .

As I said before it does make the photos look very good but it's a bit much for me , I do like things nice and simple.....lol

Thank you for the help , much appreciated .