MS Office Photo Editor

[Jason Worthen]

I have a problem with MS Photo Editor in Office 2000.
Photo Editor is the default application to open .jpg's on
most of the users computers. But sometimes the user will
open an attachment they will receive in outlook. And Photo
Editor will open Minimized and users think that it's not
opening the pictures. but I show them you have to right
click and choose maximize in order to see it. You can't
just click on the photo editor task to make it display you
actualy need to maximize it. Anyway I was posting to see
if anyone else has and Idea of how to fix this problem. I
tryed patching some of the comptuers will all the Office
patchs but the problem does not seam to go away and I
can't seam to duplicate the problem all the time so its
hard to tell what actualy makes it happen. any Ideas let
me know thanks

 

[Bob I]

It just opened off the desktop. R-click on the Taskbar and select Tile
or cascade windows

 

[cgullet123]

Jason,

It is actually just the way things are with that app. I have
researched the ever lovin' H-E-Double hockey sticks out of it and
nothing came of it. I think the reason you can't pin it down is
because some users minimize the app and then forget it is down there
and then shut down windows. The next time it is used it actually opens
minimized. All that really needs to be done is that when they are done
using the app they need to close it instead of minimize. That way it
will open full everytime they need it.

Hope this helps,

CGullet123

 

[DeLa]

I have always known it to be like this. It opens minimised and one has to
click it open usually more than once before it activates. It is very
irritating.

Trying to shovel this of to some weird user behaviour makes me angry. Why is
it the IT-people always blame the user when the can not immediately see the
problem/solution? Why can't they say "this is weird, I do not know why or
what it is, I can't help it, but I will keep looking for a solution which
maybe I won't find".

Also you can not expect users to be 'patient' when they have Pentium 4
machines with 2 gigaherz processing power to open up a 'picture editor'.

Sorry to be this harsh but that's because of Photo Editor's annoying
behaviour that has *** me of so many times and now I read that it is my own
fault.

--DeLa

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I have always known it to be like this. It opens minimised and one
has to click it open usually more than once before it activates. It
is very irritating.

It's not your fault, and indeed has been a consistent pain. I remember
reporting the problem on an early version of Windows NT, but it has never
been fixed.