help with Windows XP!

[raindog]

hope someone can help
I've been using Linux Ubuntu for about a year, but started getting problems, so have reverted to my old XP Pro software.
A great feature with Linux for my work, was that I could open several images from my files at the same time. Is there any way I can do this with XP?
If anyone can help, please make the explanation easy to follow, as I'm a bit of a computer numpty.
Cheers - fingers crossed!

 

[burndust]

i would think there is some freeware out there that would do this ...some sort of graphics manager you could try windows xp powertool image resizer if its stilk avail

 

[Rasmus]

What is wrong with your ubuntu? I would try fixing that - winXP is getting very outdated...

Anyway, Irfanview is a pretty good free image viewer, and should support multiple instances.

 

[MontyVeda]

XP still works fine for me.

But yes, not being able to open more than one Picture & Fax Viewer is pathetic.

I you use office (MS or Open) you could drag the images on to a page (select web layout for full screen) to view them side by side or in a grid... but I'd use Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp or any other image editor.

edit... Rasmus is right about IrfanView. Handy bit of kit that is.

 

[Bman]

Picture and Fax viewer is rubbish, disable it and use an image editing program to open multiple images.

I use an old version of Paint Shop Pro

 

[raindog]

thanks for replies everyone
I cracked after starting this thread, and used a hard drive cleaner of my son's to wipe everything clean on the other desk-top, then reinstalled Ubuntu, so I'm back with that now. Just got everything back up and running. Everything seems OK - for now
bloody computers - once again, thanks for advice

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Another vote for IrfanView - it's an excellent bit of freeware. It supports multiple instances, and has numerous image editing features, resizes images. You can even create panoramic images by putting several images left-to-right, or top-to-bottom. You can also select parts of images and paste the part to a new image. Plus other features, also. I don't work for them, by the way! I've just been using IrfanView for years, and think it's great.