Archive for the ‘Photos’ Category


Extracting Images From Movie

Dear Computer Lady, I need your help! I have a Dell laptop with Windows 7. I have a program called Windows Movie Maker and would like to transfer a CD that has old home movies on it to my computer. The reason is that I would like to take some of the movie frames and [...]

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Moving Pictures

Dear Computer Lady, I have a question about photos. I save my digital photos on my computer in folders. When I transfer them to another place, for example WalMart to order photos they copy themselves into the folder. If I move the pictures one at a time they don’t do that. But if I use [...]

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Putting Photos on CD

Dear Computer Lady, I need to put some pics on a CD for our church directory. I have Windows Photo Gallery and Vista. Also, some of the pictures are in my e-mail. How do I get pics from both places on a CD? Thank you very much, Sue

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Putting Old Files on New Computer

Dear Computer Lady, My beloved 10.5 year old Dell w/ Windows XP is still working but in anticipation of its dieing on me I have been moving documents and pictures to thumb drives. Someone told me recently that if/when I get a new computer I probably won’t be able to open and work on them [...]

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Emailing Photos in Windows7

Dear Computer Lady, Read your piece about sending pictures in XP, but what about Windows 7 Home Prem. Also I do not have Outlook as a e-mail client or address. I use my Bell south for e-mail. How would I send pictures using it. I can send pictures but it takes forever for them to [...]

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Storing Photos

Dear Computer Lady, We have thousands of photograph files saved as .jpg files. We regularly back up these family pictures on to DVD’s. However, in your opinion, will .jpg be a good format to save for 10 and 20 years down the road, or would it be smarter to start converting the pictures to another [...]

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Picture Icons changed

Dear Computer Lady, All of a sudden the pictures in my “pictures folder” are icons of a cat with legs sprawled out. How can I get my pictures to show again without opening each one directly? Arlene

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Take Pictures Out of Programs

Dear Computer Lady, I have pictures in Zoom browser and an adobe photo album and I would like to put them in the same file with all my pictures. I can’t seem to figure out how they let me do that. I can copy them but they are still there in the other files. I [...]

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How To Make Photos Smaller

Dear Computer Lady, How do you make the very small photos for profile photos.I can resize in my photo program, Picasa, but when you click on the photo, it appears very large. I would like to make it small and keep it small. Thanks, Frances

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Putting Photos in Order

Dear Computer Lady, I have Vista Home Premium and have been scanning my children’s photos in preparation to putting on a disc. Is it possible to change the order of my photos to arrange them in chronological order? I have been going around in circles and getting nowhere. Hoping you can help me. Thanks Elaine.

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