Windows Vista Lost original Photo program in Vista basic?

Hi, mates Vista again, what program should his photo's open in originally. as I said I am a XP man, but his does'nt seem to have a Windows Picture and fax Viewer or such ,
He has Kodak share and Quicktime installed , some photo's won't open in Quicktime, and when you open the photo folder the photo's can only be shown in Icon form ( or details etc), there is no " Thumbnail" option listed under view, but if you open then in Kodakshare , they open in thumbnails???
It is a bit of a pain, also he went to email a folder of 123 photo's and now they have all turned to grey squares, and it tries to reinstall them , but cant find the folder, one message say's Cant find target , may have had file ext changed or renamed, he does'nt think he has , he presses a lot of things he shouldn't. hence this problem, I am trying to get it back to original, could he have deleted the windows viewer program with a photo??
Any help please
Cheers Des.

 

Windows Picture Gallery I think all Vista Versions not sure though. But I know it is in Home Basic and Ultimate.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/photo-gallery.aspx

(happy new year croweater) hope your Demons have have better year in 2009
hawk22

 

Thabnks Hawke22m I will check that out , his is a home Basic.
Actually I am Crow my name is a nick name Demon Des, from my mtorcycling,
Cheers Des.

 

Hi Des...

I'm running Vista and my pics open in the default "Windows Photo Gallery ". It sounds like your friend lost the Windows Photo Gallery file association with JPG pic files.

When QuickTime is installed it likes to "take over" file associations. Do a "Google" search on "file association in QuickTime with Vista" and you will find quite a few hits.

To reassociate the JPG extension back to Windows Picture Gallery follow these instructions...

1) Go to Control Panel
2) Open "Default Programs "
3) Open "Associate a file type or protocol with a program ". It will take a few seconds to open with all the file extensions listed
4) Scroll down to "JPG" then click once on it to select it. After selecting the JPG extension near the top of the window you will see what program JPG is associated with.
5) If not the "Windows Photo Gallery" then click the "Change Program" button.
6) The "Open With" window will open. Select\click the "Windows Photo Gallery" from the list of "Recommended Programs" then click the "OK" button

FYI...My Windows Photo Gallery is associated with the following file extensions...
BMP
DIB
GIF
ICO
JFIF
JPE
JPEG
JPG
PNG
TIF
TIFF
WDP

QuickTime got installed on my Vista Laptop when I installed iTunes. I uninstalled it and use the Free QuickTime Alternative...
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

 

Thanks Dobhar, That worked a treat, easy as !.
Thanks again Cheers Des.

 

Hi Des...Glad it worked out. Cheers...