Windows 10: Microsoft Picture It on Windows 10

I use Microsoft Picture It and love it. I have used it for many years. I believe I had on a Windows XP operating system many years ago. I went from Windows XP to Windows 8 - never used Windows Vista or Windows 7. I loaded Picture it on my Windows 8 machine and it worked fine. As time passed I upgraded my Windows 8 to Windows 10 when it was first offered by Microsoft. I don't remember exactly, but I think Picture It was on my PC when it was upgraded from 8 to 10 and has continued to work fine and I continue to love it. I have another Windows PC running Windows 10 also. I have Corel Paintshop Pro on that PC, but it is not as user friendly as Picture It. I still have the original disk containing Picture It, but it will not completely load to this machine. I get a message that I need Microsoft Explorer 7 in order to load it.


My question is this - is there a work around for not having Microsoft Explorer 7


I know there are many others who still use and love the old Microsoft Picture It.


Thanks for your input,


Riopaloma

:)

 

Microsoft Selects Dolby Audio for Windows 10

it would've been great if microsoft added HEVC decoders, LAV filters along with other codecs with Windows 10, and developing WMP to be better than VLC, KMPlayer and such sorts of media players.

Nevertheless, this is good step for microsoft, by far.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
• Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
• Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

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