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Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 08 Aug 2009 05:13 PM |
Is it known if Photo Story 3 can run on Windows 7?
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 08 Aug 2009 05:18 PM |
Oh! I found a thread about it inhere. It can be done but it a bit tricky.
Link: http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=990 |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 08 Aug 2009 05:43 PM |
Now I only need to figure out how the tip is to be understood. :)
Download a msi installation file? From where? A little walk through would be nice... |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 14 Aug 2009 11:48 AM |
| Check the Photo Story 3 > Setup page of my website... it includes the link to get it and more info. |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 29 Aug 2009 02:00 PM |
I just went through the steps again to install Photo Story 3 on my Windows 7 computer... and it doesn't work, at least not yet.
The download site requires validation of the system to verify it's genuine, and says the validation process won't start working until after the official release of Windows 7 on October 22, 2009.
Downloading the installation .msi file on XP and trying to install it on Windows 7 results in the message 'PS3 won't work on Windows 7'.
Looks like I'll be sitting between 'activated' and 'validated' for a couple months. I used my Windows 7 product key to do the activation but validation won't work until after Oct 22. Until then I won't know if PS3 will work on Windows 7. It worked on the beta versions so I'd like to assume it'll continue to work on the final. |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 25 Oct 2009 03:59 PM |
| Having recently installed Windows 7, I can confirm that Photostory 3 will NOT install. This is a real issue as I use it extensively. I have not been able to track anything down on the Microsoft websites about this. Does anyone know of a workround? |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:45 PM |
It's now after Oct 22. I can download PS3 but it won't install on Windows 7.
One work-around might be 'Windows XP Mode' for Windows 7. I've downloaded it but not installed it yet to check...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 04:27 PM |
| Photo Story 3.1, the version included in the Microsoft Digital Image 2006 suite, installs and works fine on Windows 7. |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 05:15 PM |
Also, the Windows Live Movie Maker has an "AutoMovie" feature which can put a set of pictures together quickly, with music and make a slideshow with Pan & Zooms. It has an automatic pan/zoom which seems to intelligently determine the area of focus and then picks the best pan/zoom. Or you can change them manually to a different pan/zoom of your choice.
I think Microsoft is essentially taking the concept of PhotoStory 3 and trying to incorporate it into WLMM. What it is missing is the exact choice of pan/zoom to specify the starting and ending regions. Maybe that will be a future release? |
Blaine
Movie Maker (Custom Titles, Effects. etc.)
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:54 PM |
I added this to my website....
"...Photo Story 3 doesn't install on Windows 7 but Photo Story 3.1, the version included in the Microsoft Digital Image 2006 suite, installs and works fine. Microsft no longer supports the Digital Image Suite 2006, and the compatibility options in Windows 7 are too difficult for the average user of Photo Story 3. I consider Vista the end of the road for Photo Story 3. Plan to use other slide show software when you move to Windows 7...." |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 09:29 AM |
PapaJohn,
I D/L Microsoft Digital Image 2006 from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7C3B3DED-A15F-48C5-B724-7796FE8C151E&displaylang=en
I can't install it yet, but I checked its files content and I can't C PS3.1
Is it just a feature of the full instillation? |
we can meet on Skype once we decide the time.
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 10:39 AM |
The link you used doesn't have the word 'Suite' in it... and has a link at the bottom of the page to the PS3 download page.
What I installed was the Digital Image Suite 2006 Starter Edition, a 60 day trial version handed out at the digital media galleries in San Francisco and New York in 2005... I was there doing the handing out. I didn't purchase the full version so I don't know yet if it's a path to getting PS3 on Windows 7. A Windows 7 user just purchased it from Amazon and will be telling me how it goes for him. |
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fayfen
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 12:46 PM |
The link is the starter edition
and there is also an update here
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/a/5/4a5de421-4606-4809-8bcb-78408cca3498/Update.exe
I still didn't install anything , but have found PIXPSTRY.exe that is PS3.1 in a PI directory with all its DLLs. running it as is is no good.
I hope installing only the POD.msi will do. I want to image my system partion before installing anything |
we can meet on Skype once we decide the time.
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 07:13 PM |
About XP mode in Windows 7:
Is it possible to use XP mode for Photo Story 3?
Is it possible to run WMM in XP mode and use animated gifs?
These things means the world to me. Hoping desperately for an answer... |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 07:15 PM |
| The question is: ca you download Photo Story 3 while in XP mode? Or transfer via USB pen or something? |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 07:24 PM |
| I simply don't understand what I read in the posts above. What is the purpose of XP mode if it doesn't work? You can run old aps in XP mode but you can't install them. Is that is? XP mode is useless? |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:07 PM |
| PapaJohn - FYI, I was able to download and install Photo Story 3 on a Windows 7 Ultimate system I just set-up without a problem and without having to use the Windows XP Mode you mentioned. |
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 15 Nov 2009 11:22 AM |
thanks neo... your the first successful case I've heard about.
as it worked fiine thru all the beta and RC versions but stopped with the final release to manufacturing, do you know which version of Windows 7 it is? |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 15 Nov 2009 09:16 PM |
| PapaJohn - it was the 32 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate. I hope to also try it on a system with the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium later this week; I'll let you know what happens once I get the chance to try it. |
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 12:48 AM |
| I'm using the final release of the 32 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate on two systems and can't install PS3 on either. Hopefully we'll converge on the core issue and resolve or work-around it. |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:16 PM |
| I had a pretty clean install of PS 3; the only filter that showed up in Movie Maker was quartz.dll. |
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:03 AM |
| Any news about this? SP3 on Win 7? |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:42 PM |
Some users can install and use PS3 on Windows 7 OK.... others including myself can't. And I have heard from one heavy duty user who thought his was working fine found he couldn't tweak the motion pan/zoom settings.
Still collecting clues about what works and doesn't. |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:05 AM |
| Most of the features of Photo Story will work on Windows 7, but not all. The Pan and Zoom effects are impaired. |
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Re: Photo Story on Windows 7?
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:50 PM |
| dobberp - what specific aspects were impaired and which version of Windows 7 do you have? The reason I ask is that pan/zoom appears to work as expected on my Windows 7 system. |
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius |
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