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    Bhenry Guest

    Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard

    I have a new laptop with Vista, but I liked the old Microsoft Scanner and
    Camera Wizard from Windows XP a ZILLION times better than the import options
    given in Vista. The new wizard is entirely too restrictive.

    I want to put pictures into a predetermined folder of my choice and give it
    my own distinct names - not using the tags. Why can't I do this anymore? It
    was super-easy in XP and now it appears that I'm handcuffed by Vista's
    restrictive options that don't allow the user (me) to customize it to my own
    liking.

    If I want to use tags, great.. but I don't. I want to use the same thing I
    used in XP.

    Wondering if anyone knows how to accomplish this short of going back to XP
    or to another computer with XP.

    Really not liking the Vista wizard at all.

    Thanks in advance.

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    pandrews Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard


    i agree 100%, although I used the scanners & cameras wizard mostly for
    scanning, it was MUCH nicer in Windows XP.

    I had my scanning down to a nice routine in XP, I just opened my
    control panel, scanners & cameras wizard, and it would allow me to put
    in a file name, destination, click "scan" and my scanner would scan.

    Now, with Windows Vista, it makes me use some hokey software that came
    with my scanner, and it's nowhere near as good or efficient for what I
    want to do. When I go to my scanners & cameras wizard, all it will do
    is give me my scanner properties. Very annoying.


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    pandrews

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    lsayad Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard


    Has anyone figured out an answer to this problem? I love XP's importer,
    and I absolutely HATE the new vista format. You can't do ANYTHING with
    it!!! Please let me know if you find something. Thanks


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    lsayad

  4. #4
    Rob123 Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard

    I agree with all these comments, I use my digi-camera for pleasure and
    selling goods on Ebay, it use to be so simple to use the XP wizzard and
    simply down load the photos I wanted. For some reason I was not able to
    send images back to my camera yesterday - possible related, Anyway let's
    hope some wizzard can solve this problem:rolleyes:, so far I must say
    this is the only things I do not like about Vista.:(

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    krispykreme Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard


    Hi,

    You can find the wizard here : C:\Windows\System32\wiaacmgr.exe
    It is well hidden...
    I hope this helps !

    J.


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    krispykreme

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    Ron Birchard Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard


    - I do a search for this and do not find it?-


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    Ron Birchard

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    JudyBooty Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard


    I have found a resolution to the quick renaming issue. You still have
    to use the regular Vista import function, but then create folders for
    each group of photos you want to name similarly, e.g. "20081231 Sarah's
    Birthday" and put all the pictures relating to that event in the folder.
    Then, use CTL+A to select all files in the folder and right click on
    the first message in the file name area and select "Rename". Type your
    file name in the first box and it will rename all selected files with a
    number in parenthesis following each file name. It's the only
    workaround I've come up with, and just recently. This was one of my big
    beefs with Vista as well. I hope this is helpful!

    PS - I don't know what a quote button is so I can't use it. Not trying
    to have improper posting etiquette, just ignorant. Sorry about that.


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    JudyBooty

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    Frylock Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard


    This new import tool has frustrated me from the beginning as well, and I
    tried numerous third party programs with no luck in reproducing the
    simplicity of the XP Scanner and Camera Wizard. I finally found one
    from (of course) Microsoft themselves. The Windows Live Photo Gallery
    (LIVE is the operative term here, this is NOT the standard Windows Photo
    Gallery included in Vista), available for free download from 'Photo
    Gallery - Windows Live' (http://download.live.com/photogallery), has an
    automatic import tool that not only does everything the old XP wizard
    did, but surpasses it.

    The WLPG import tool automatically groups the pictures on your camera
    by the duration of time between each set of pictures, i.e. every time
    there is a 4 hour gap between pictures, it creates a new group. You can
    easily set the gap between groups or remove the grouping altogether for
    a more XP-like experience, but I recommend using the auto-grouping as it
    is extremely helpful and accurate.

    You can name each group before you import, so you can do a bulk import
    and still get individually created folders and properly named files
    within those folders in one easy click, rather than going back to the
    beginning several times as in XP. You can also set the file naming
    independently of the folder naming, which I find helpful to avoid long
    file names. For instance, you can tell it to call the folder "Steve's
    Birthday 2009", and just name the files "Birthday". Of course the files
    are numbered in order they were taken as well.

    The gallery program itself is a perfectly good tool for viewing and
    managing your pictures. It looks just like the built-in Vista "Windows
    Photo Gallery", which is very similar to Picasa. It also has a pretty
    cool panoramic stitching feature which worked surprisingly well when I
    tested it.

    But you're not interested in editing, you just want to get your
    pictures on your computer in an organized way without paying to do so.
    So go download this thing already, because it does just that, really
    well.


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    Frylock

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    dbknox Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard

    *JudyBooty* it is in the window that you are reading at the bottom left
    the blue buttons "quote" "multi" "quick" just hit the blue "quote"
    button and it will quote what is posted in that window. I went through
    the same thing when I first started and now I would like to know how to
    get rid of "notice" that comes up every time I log in.


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    dbknox

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    john hatesvista Guest

    Re: Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard

    J.Awesome! Thank you so much. I had to replace my old dell that finally[/color]
    died and got a vista box (Blah). And my g/f was on my case cause of how
    my clicks it took to get something scanned. You are a life saver!


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