Vista: Photo Wizard Gone? What were you thinking??

It seems when ever Microsoft does an "improvement" or an "enhancement" we
always seem to lose features and options that once existed. Yet again
Microsoft if all their wizdom seems to have removed the choices and simplicty
that was the Photo Wizard feature in XP.

I first rellized I have a problem when I connected my Canon 630 Powershot
and after the computer recognized and installed the drivers, nothing else
happened. I tried to re-conect / plug the USB back in to see if Photo Wizard
would wake up and offer to down load my photo's but alas...nothing. Stupid
as is seemed, I had to go into "My Computer" and find the camera connection,
then click on the USB port, search and open various files until I found my
photos on the camera, then copy and paste the photos into a folder in my
Pictures file. Then I had to go back and delete the photos off my camera.

Well, that dosn't strike me as an "enhanced feature" does it? Now the first
time I connceted the camera, I got this Gallery import that didn't allow me
to select a folder, it just darn well imported to where it wanted. I had no
choice. For some reason I couldn't even get the computer to recongize that
there was any camer or photos to load.

So I did some research on line to discover that there is no Photo Wizard
feature. Just this battempt at an improvement called Windows Gallery. But I
seem to have no choice as to how or where I can down load, you just throw ALL
the pics into one huge Gallery, and I have to go and separate them as I need
to by event or whatever. I hate this improvment. I hate the fact that I
have no choice, and no flexibility to decide what I download, and where I can
load it to.

Also, if I want to save a photo somewhere I can't do a "Save As", I have to
go to "Make a Copy" ...sure, confuse us a bit further...the new speak in
Vista..."Save as" is so passe....so 1990, like totaly, I'm so sure. Grumble,
grumble.

So A) why is my camera not recognized when I plug it in, and B) why on earth
do I not have the option and flexibility to download from my camera what and
to where I want to save my photos, as I deem in the categories or folders of
my creation?

 

Buy Adobe Album instead. It works. And it doesn't corrupt data like Photo
Gallery does when downloading from some cameras. For example, it strips the
panorama markers from my Olympus jpg files and overwrites them with its own
information about where it stored them! I never use Photo Gallery for
anything anymore.

I agree totally with your comments on this disimprovement over Photo Wizard
in XP and taking away our choices. Big Brother knows what's best for us.

 

Thanks Greg. I will look into Adobe Photo Gallery. This is a big mess that
Microsoft has created. Pretty stupid on their part. Cheers!