How do I get the filmstrip view in Vista?

The slide show is large, but you can't control the speed or make a selection
like the filmstrip. The "large icons" aren't large at all.

Help Please!!! Vista is soooooo frustrating.

Filmstrip view is gone. The equivalent is enabling the preview pane in your
pictures folders (Organize -> Layout). You can drag the left-hand border
further left to enlarge the pane.

I don't know which slide show you are referring to but if it's desktop
icons you want larger you can press and hold 'Ctrl' whilst rotating you
mouse wheel 'upwards' , should you have one. Click in empty desktop
first so that it's active.

If you lower your expectations dramtically, the frustrating part goes
away. The dissapointment goes away too.

Slide show in what? Everybody seems to have a photo manager these days
(Picasa, Kodak, Olympus, etc.)

In an Explorer window, you can select multiple pictures using the Ctrl or
Shift keys, then click on Slideshow.
There are 3 speed options, click on the little gear icon at the bottom of
the screen.
If you want to change the thumbnail size, press Ctrl, and roll the mouse
wheel.

In Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Live Photo Gallery, it works the same,
except you click on the slide button at the bottom to start the slideshow.

There is also a photo slideshow screensaver.

You may try Picasa or Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 2 to get filmstrip
view. I am sure there are many others but those are two I have.

I like the filmstrip view because it is so EASY to use, as well as intuitive. Is there an addon if Microsoft doesn't support it? I wish I had known before I bought my new machine because I spend a lot of time organizing pictures and VISTA is awful in that regard. Who cares about tags? I just want to name the pictures based on event and date.

This was my resolution.

First I went into a folder with photos in it and seleted tools> folder options>in the General Tab I selected classic folders. In the View Tab I de-selected the first box "always show icons. never thumbnails" and then I clicked apply to all folders.

Choose a photo and click the icon to the left of the slideshow icon (Icon changed after I did this so not sure what it was called) and then set the default viewer to Windows Office Picture Manager as your default photo viewer.

Double click a photo in a folder and it opens up into a Windows Office Picture Manager viewer.

In the tool bar on the upper left there are 3 icons and the middle one is "filmstrip view" of every photo in that folder.

Very similar to the old filmstrip.

Why are you telling me this?????

I didn't have the problem and while I might have Office Picture
Manager, the OP may not.

Let me guess... for the same reason you top post? Because he can, he
chose to do it that way, it's just his style and if anybody doesn't
like they can go away or get used to it

Now, about those five question marks...

Windows preview pane is no substitute for “Filmstrip” mode where pics can be examined quickly with the right (large) size, rotated, deleted, etc. The solution I found quite good was as follows:

Open Windows Explorer and open a folder which contains pictures. Click on one of the pictures and then click on the “Open” icon to the left of “Slide Show”. The option I suggest “Windows Photo Gallery” probably isn’t listed but it’s part of the Windows operating system and has a good “filmstrip mode”. So, click on “Choose default program…”. Then click on the “Browse” button. Then scroll down to the folder labeled Windows Photo Gallery and open it. Finally click on WindowsPhotoGallery.exe and open it. This will make that program one of your options when you (as above) click on the “Open” icon to the left of “Slide Show”.

Important: When you’re in Windows Photo Gallery, you must once again double-click on a picture to open its “Filmstrip-like” mode.

If you prefer that, by default, another program opens your picture files, either uncheck the box that says “Always use the selected program to open this type of file” when you initialize Windows Photo Gallery above or follow the instructions above after “Choose default program…” and choose the program of your choice. After doing that, the program you choose will be the default “picture opener”, but you will still be able to have “filmstrip” mode by using the Windows Photo Gallery option.

Final note: Within Windows Photo Gallery you may have to choose “File” then “Add folder to gallery” if your pics don’t show up for any reason.