Hello:
I am desperate for some help.
I just bought a new Toshiba Satellite S870 laptop. It has an i7 and an AMD Radeon HD 7670M GPU. Sorry, I don't know the type of Motherboard nor do I know where it's listed.
So, I just transferred my files from my other laptop Win7 to my new Win8 laptop and went to view my images in my Pictures folders. Well, the pictures looked terrible in whatever it was that opened them and so I recalled that it was Windows Photo Gallery that opened them in Win7.
So, I went to Default Programs and set Windows Photo Gallery as the Default program to open images.
Great, right? It seemed to be so because when I view my images they look normal and fine.
But then I went to use Adobe InDesign and while following a tutorial I was told to Alt + double click on an image w/in an open document in order to open the image in full view w/in InDesign BUT rather than it doing that Windows Photo Gallery opened and so I am unable to perform the task I need.
I called Microsoft and a man told me that I had to go to the "Associate a File Type or Protocol with a Program" and then I had/have to choose Each and Every File Type (jpeg, png, gif, tiff etc ect) with Each and Every Application (Adobe or otherwise) that I want to be able to open those file types. Um, WHAT?? is this really true??
Questions overall are: 1. Can I set Windows Photo Gallery to open my Pictures/Images in my Windows Pictures Folders AND still have InDesign work properly?
How or can I reset the Default Programs? ie: I set Windows Photo Gallery to open ALL the file types it CAN open and so can I take this back?? I have not been able to find a way to do so.
I tried going to: "Choose Defaults for this Program" BUT it doesn't let me choose anything at all ... as everything already has a check mark next to them and not only that when I click on the box w/the check mark nothing happens. One would think doing so would un-check it ... right?
Please help. I am totally THANKFUL for your time and for reading my long post. I am at a total loss :shock:
I think I may need to downgrade to Win7 if that's even possible ... or possible w/out ruining my warranty.
Please, any help, any advice anything at all would be greatly appreciated.
THANK YOU, Kara
I am desperate for some help.
I just bought a new Toshiba Satellite S870 laptop. It has an i7 and an AMD Radeon HD 7670M GPU. Sorry, I don't know the type of Motherboard nor do I know where it's listed.
So, I just transferred my files from my other laptop Win7 to my new Win8 laptop and went to view my images in my Pictures folders. Well, the pictures looked terrible in whatever it was that opened them and so I recalled that it was Windows Photo Gallery that opened them in Win7.
So, I went to Default Programs and set Windows Photo Gallery as the Default program to open images.
Great, right? It seemed to be so because when I view my images they look normal and fine.
But then I went to use Adobe InDesign and while following a tutorial I was told to Alt + double click on an image w/in an open document in order to open the image in full view w/in InDesign BUT rather than it doing that Windows Photo Gallery opened and so I am unable to perform the task I need.
I called Microsoft and a man told me that I had to go to the "Associate a File Type or Protocol with a Program" and then I had/have to choose Each and Every File Type (jpeg, png, gif, tiff etc ect) with Each and Every Application (Adobe or otherwise) that I want to be able to open those file types. Um, WHAT?? is this really true??
Questions overall are: 1. Can I set Windows Photo Gallery to open my Pictures/Images in my Windows Pictures Folders AND still have InDesign work properly?
How or can I reset the Default Programs? ie: I set Windows Photo Gallery to open ALL the file types it CAN open and so can I take this back?? I have not been able to find a way to do so.
I tried going to: "Choose Defaults for this Program" BUT it doesn't let me choose anything at all ... as everything already has a check mark next to them and not only that when I click on the box w/the check mark nothing happens. One would think doing so would un-check it ... right?
Please help. I am totally THANKFUL for your time and for reading my long post. I am at a total loss :shock:
I think I may need to downgrade to Win7 if that's even possible ... or possible w/out ruining my warranty.
Please, any help, any advice anything at all would be greatly appreciated.
THANK YOU, Kara
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows *
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Toshiba
- CPU
- Intel Core i7
- Motherboard
- no idea
- Memory
- 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon 7670M
- Browser
- Firefox, IE9 and Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Norton