Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files

Pedro wrote:
> That Vista replacement for XP's Windows Picture & Fax Viewer is a total heap
> of dog-crap.
>
> Apart from glitching pictures etc as you mention, it won't "Preview"
> animated gifs - just shows a static image. Utter crud. And the gibbering,
> dribbling lunatics in Microsoft programming cellars say it's an advance!
>
> Pedro
>
>
> fredb38 wrote:
>> I have googled this problem for three days and found many many people
>> with the same problem but nobody seems to have an answer that works.
>> Not really sure what is causing the problem. Hardware, software,
>> Vista. Have tried to view with picasa, Irfanview, and several other
>> programs but all had the same results.
>
>

I don't have an answer but I seem to recall a user having trouble with
the transfer from camera to PC via USB cable. Mine works fine but if USB
is what you used maybe you could double check the motherboards drivers
and stuff.

fredb38 wrote:
> I download Easter pictures from my buddies computer to a thumb drive.
> All the pictures were good and clear.
> I then inserted the thumb drive into my desktop computer and downloaded
> to a folder.
> About 30 % of the pictures in the folder were corrupted. Pictures would
> get grayed out partially, or the picture would turn a strange color.
> I then looked at the pictures on the thumb drive using my computer and
> they too were corrupted.
> I then took the thumb drive and inserted it into my laptop with XP and
> all the pictures were fine. No corrupted files.
> Then I took the thumb drive and tried it on my wife's laptop with Vista
> and again all were fine. No corrupted files.
> Then from my wife's laptop I E-mailed myself four pictures that were
> corrupted on my computer so that could see if replacing them with a good
> file would do anything.
> After opening the pictures in my E-Mail they were fine. I then copied
> them to my folder and it worked. The four good pictures replaced the
> four corrupted files. Now the four pictures in the folder were perfect.
> I guess the bottom line is something is going on with my computer and I
> am not at all sure what it is.
> I did update my video driver but that didn't help.
> I see others are having this problem but have not seen a cure for it.
> Does anybody have cure?
>
>
Install Windows Live Photo Gallery and use to view all of your photos
and animated gifs.

http://download.live.com/photogallery