Comments on: What, no Photo Gallery or Movie Maker in Windows 7?

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:06:19 +0000

I installed Live Photo Gallery after installing Windows 7, but it doesn’t work. The program won’t launch at all.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:44:40 +0000

Windows email accounts were always stored online but Windows Live Mail downloads and syncs mail folders/contacts so you can work offline. Nothing has much changed really there.

Photo Gallery is virtually the same. You don’t need to be online to edit your photo’s and it also still supports tags/libraries.
The only change I noticed is when you want to email your photo’s. It will always upload online first and then provide link in your email (a feature I don’t care for but workaround is to use the file explorer to physically attach).

I only played little bit with fix feature but looks to me at least as powerful as Vista’s fix option.

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By: SandRider

SandRider — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:21:03 +0000

I’m confused. (not unusual, I’m old)

I’ve been using Vista for 2 years, not unpleased,
and have the 7 upgrade disc in front of me. I’ve
looked around 7, and saw the “missing application”
issue – Windows Mail is not an issue for me, I’m
using Thunderbird, but I’m confused about the whole
“Windows Live” thing ….

Windows Live Mail content is stored on-line ?
I download all my emails to my machine – if I just
wanted on-line email, I’d just use the service
from my local ISP … can Live Mail download the
emails to this machine ?

The real issue for me is the Photo Gallery, the best
feature of Vista as far as I was concerned – the “Fix”
option did all the photo-editing I needed – the “Photo
Gallery” that I saw on the 7 machine was the exact same
EXCEPT for the “fix” button ….

So is the “Live Photo Gallery” an on-line thing as well,
or will it stand alone ? I’m in the country, on a dial-up
connection; I don’t want to have to connect to the internet
just to take some red-eye out of a photo on my machine.

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By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:21:25 +0000

When you install Windows Live Mail again in Windows 7 it should pull all messages and contact list from online storage. You can double-check by installing Windows Live Mail on another machine and see if you get all mails/contact there. If not I would export (file menu) all emails and contacts.

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By: chris

chris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:48:45 +0000

Thanks.
I curently use Windows Mail though that came with Vista. Once I install Windows 7 wouldn’t all my emails and contacts be erased from Windows Mail seeing as there isn’t an email program that gets installed with W7?

Thanks

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By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:18:33 +0000

Hotmail/Windows Live folders and contacts are typically stored online so you would keep all of those when you (re)install windows live mail (which didn’t change much if at all in Windows 7).

You can verify by checking online. If you see all your data including contacts on http://mail.live.com/ you should be fine.

But just in case there’s also an import/export in Windows live mail: See file menu and import and export.

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By: chris

chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:16:03 +0000

Just wondering how to save my existing emails and contacts on Windows Mail for Vista?
If I upgrade to Windows 7 and then download Windows Live Essentials will all my original saved emails and contacts go into the program, or do I have to save all of these emails and contacts somewhere/somehow?
Thanks!

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By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:05:03 +0000

Actually just noticed that the file explorer still has resize options when you click email. It just doesn’t have the multi-select but that’s ok (just hold CTRL to do the same).

So change is basically that there’s no way to inline photo’s (if anyone is able let me know) and no inline image resize resolution options in Windows Live Photo gallery.

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By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:20:59 +0000

I found that there’s no way to use inline photo even though there’s an option in new windows live mail when you click email. Selecting that option still will use online mode. And gone is the option to allow you to specify a resize when you click email.

I also found that when I use the insert photo inline that it’s broken. At one time I got a crash and 2nd time it did send the email but with no image included. That used to work fine. Seems inline photo is as much discouraged as possible.

Note there’s a built-in resize in live photo gallery. Just select all photo’s and right click and choose resize. It will then make a copy with the selected size. Now you can attach those as files. So that’s a workaround but why make it so hard now to do this in Windows 7 compared to Vista?

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By: Marc Saltzman

Marc Saltzman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:50:15 +0000

Hi Richard,

I asked Microsoft to answer. Here you go:

Windows Live Photo gallery has some added features compared to Window Photo Gallery, like fix red eyes, cropping, publish online … And the UI is very similar. I am not sure why one wouldn’t prefer Windows Live Photo Gallery.

For Windows Live Movie Maker, it is a different product than Windows Movie Maker, especially the UI. Most of the features are still there. The product has been redesigned to be simpler but with very powerful functionality. Having said that Windows Live Movie Maker support project files from the old Windows MM.

In both case, you can’t install the old version on Windows 7.

Best,

Marc

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