No photos in Photo Gallery

I have no photos or video in my windows photo gallery, the help says that
photos and videos in the pictures folder are automatically placed in photo
gallery. I have heaps of pictures in the pictures folder but nothing shows up
in photo gallery.

I try to add the pictures folder and i get a message:
"you cant add this folder to the gallery. this folder or one of its parent
folders is considered a system folder or is marked hidden, it is recommended
that you move your pictures to the pictures folder or to another folder."

What could be wrong and what can i do about it? i am very confused.

My friend John gets exactly the same problem. I read in some forum thread that a guy in this situation switched from the administrator session to someone else's session and Windows Photo Gallery would work fine. But when switching back to the administrator session, WPG crashed again.

Any idea?

Regards,

Papydom

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> Any idea?

Give up on Photo Gallery and use a program that works instead? Like Adobe
Album perhaps.

I'm sick of Photo Gallery corrupting my data and have stopped using it,
especially to import files with. I don't trust it. It overwrites other
programs' markers on jpgs and sometimes even corrupts the jpg itself.

"Papydom User" wrote in message news:...
> My friend John gets exactly the same problem. I read in some forum thread
> that a guy in this situation switched from the administrator session to
> someone else's session and Windows Photo Gallery would work fine. But when
> switching back to the administrator session, WPG crashed again.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Regards,
>
> Papydom
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com

I have the same problem! Somebody help please!

I encountered this problem when I turned UAC off ...turn it back on and WPG
should work fine again.




"Sergei" wrote:

> I have the same problem! Somebody help please!

Have you had any luck fixing the JPEGs ? This has happened three times
before I figured out what was going on. We were using a laptop with Vista
and it was accessing a network within the house to get at the pictures. This
Photo Gallery which is embeded within explorer corrupts the headers of the
JPEGs. I have read on another site that you can hexidecimal edit the header,
but I am not sure this will work.

"Greg" wrote:

> > Any idea?
>
> Give up on Photo Gallery and use a program that works instead? Like Adobe
> Album perhaps.
>
> I'm sick of Photo Gallery corrupting my data and have stopped using it,
> especially to import files with. I don't trust it. It overwrites other
> programs' markers on jpgs and sometimes even corrupts the jpg itself.
>
> "Papydom User" wrote in message news:...
> > My friend John gets exactly the same problem. I read in some forum thread
> > that a guy in this situation switched from the administrator session to
> > someone else's session and Windows Photo Gallery would work fine. But when
> > switching back to the administrator session, WPG crashed again.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Papydom
> >
> > EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> > http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>