Solved Creating desktop icons for inviidual photo slide shows in Vista

My 92 year old father living in a nursing home has a fancy HP laptop running Vista. He is not computer literate and not connected to the Internet. I'm still using Windows XP at home and am having trouble setting things up for him. Some time ago I had downloaded a lot of jpeg photos onto his laptop in separate file folders, sorted by subject matter. I had previously created desktop icons for the first photo in each folder so that he could just click on them and start a slide show of the photos just in that folder. This was working at one time but now shows random photos from many folders as Windows Photo Gallery has apparently taken over (maybe reverting to a default situation after the laptop battery ran out of power?). I'm not clear whether I was using Photo Gallery or some other utility that came with the computer when it was working before. I have tried bringing the photo folders inside of Photo Gallery's file structure but couldn't find a way to do what I want without involving more steps than my Dad could handle. Maybe I need to change the default program for jpeg files? That would assume that there is another photo displaying program that came with the computer (maybe part of the Vista bundle or possibly a trial version of something else that has expired?). Any ideas? Thanks!

Try Irfanview

It's free and has slide show built in. During install when it asks for file associations just click Images Only Button. The rest just click next. It's very easy to use.

Edit: I believe if you do the same thing.. make a shortcut for the first file in each folder, it will show the next file if you press the right arrow key or click on the right arrow in the toolbar.

Thanks! I'll give it a try. Hopefully I can download the application install file to a flash drive and then install it on my Dad's computer as he is not connected to the Internet.

oldJohn said:

Thanks! I'll give it a try. Hopefully I can download the application install file to a flash drive and then install it on my Dad's computer as he is not connected to the Internet.

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That should work fine. I've been using IrfanView for years. Great program.

Thanks MileAhead!
That worked great.
John

You're welcome. Glad it worked out.