Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?

Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?

It has good features to add tags n all.
But when I boot into xp, all is gone. Is there a way to keep using photo
gallery in xp?

thanks

"Robert James" <> wrote in message
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> Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?

"Robert James" <> wrote ...
> Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?

No, I'm afraid not. Windows Photo Gallery in Vista isn't actually a separate
program (like an EXE file); it is hosted within the Vista Explorer process.
So you can't run it without running Vista Explorer ... and you can't run
Vista Explorer, without running Vista.

Incidentally, this is similar to the design of the Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer, in XP - it is also a shell extension, which lives in side XP's
Explorer process.

If you have Office 2003 or 207 installed, you can view and manipulate photos
with the Office Picture Manager - that's pretty similar to Photo Gallery.

Cheers,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

In article <6479870D-A623-4897-AED7->,
says...
> Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?

It will eventually be available for XP:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...e/2007/06/27/a
nnouncing-windows-live-photo-gallery.aspx
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Kind regards,
Mark Veldhuis.

"Mark Veldhuis" <> wrote
>> Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?
> It will eventually be available for XP:
> http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...o-gallery.aspx

I didn't know about that! Thanks for correcting my inadequate response to
Robert.

I'll try to have the right answer, next time

Cheers,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Thanks Andrew,
I shall try that. It was very useful.


Regards
James


"Andrew McLaren" <> wrote in message
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> "Robert James" <> wrote ...
>> Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?
>
> No, I'm afraid not. Windows Photo Gallery in Vista isn't actually a
> separate program (like an EXE file); it is hosted within the Vista
> Explorer process. So you can't run it without running Vista Explorer ...
> and you can't run Vista Explorer, without running Vista.
>
> Incidentally, this is similar to the design of the Windows Picture and Fax
> Viewer, in XP - it is also a shell extension, which lives in side XP's
> Explorer process.
>
> If you have Office 2003 or 207 installed, you can view and manipulate
> photos with the Office Picture Manager - that's pretty similar to Photo
> Gallery.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>