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Microsoft Picture it 2002 and Vista

Aug 8, 2008 3:31AM PDT

Boy, this took me a few hrs to figure out but I can get it to work, not like it use to, but good enough..open (right click)ur pictures with microsft picture it. It wont be there, so youll have to hit browse, then pip, that should load picture it in this categaory for now on

find a picture u like, right click, open with picture it, everything gets huge, and picture it does open, u can make all the changes to it u want but cannot save as.......u can save, but not as...to add more pictures, just go back to ur pictures folders,,not using picture it, right click on it and it will show up on the bottom with ur other picture, saying if u wanted to clone or add features from one pic to the other or just to have it when u need it..i have done this about 5 times with success..it suxs how microsoft left all of us hanging but ppl, u can still enjoy the ease of this program. I downloaded coral and I thought I was pretty good at stuff and I was like huh? delete..LOL if any body knows of a better way to get this to work, feel free to add it...

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Did you try the install method noted at post 3 of link?
Aug 9, 2008 3:00AM PDT
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as stated in step 3
Aug 9, 2008 7:58AM PDT

tried this first and it didn't work

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more on picture it
Aug 9, 2008 8:02AM PDT

used it all day today and all features work except being able to save as, so if u make changes, u better want to keep em..basically what is stated in step 3 is what my way automactically does for u, when u right click on any picture, open it with picture it, ur computer changes everything to work, everything is huge, looks like old windows 98 or something lke that, but im able to anything i want from this point on, even save my work, but not the original. im trying stage 3 again...anything that would help is appreciated

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"The program worked perfectly for me after this."
Aug 9, 2008 8:05AM PDT

Sadly this is the best news I could find about this old dog. Since you know MS has no intentions of fixing I'd make plans to get off it.