You create a screen saver for your operating system to display pictures from one of the following locations.
Windows XP

• My Pictures
• Windows Live Photo Gallery

Windows Vista

• Windows Photo Gallery
• Windows Live Photo Gallery

Windows 7

• Windows Live Photo Gallery

However, the screen saver may stop working if one of the following conditions is true:

• There are invalid shortcuts in the folder or in the subfolder that stores the screen saver pictures.
• The power setting is set to “Low Power.”

Notes:

• If the screen saver displays pictures from My Pictures, the SCRNSAVE.EXE registry value in the following registry subkey is “C:\Windows\system32\ssmypics.scr”:
  

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

• If the screen saver displays pictures from Windows Photo Gallery, the SCRNSAVE.EXE registry value in the following registry subkey is “C:\Windows\system32\PhotoScreensaver.scr”:
  

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

• If the screen saver displays pictures from Windows Live Photo Gallery, the SCRNSAVE.EXE registry value in the following registry subkey is “C:\Windows\wlxpgss.scr”:
  

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

When you use Windows Photo Gallery to preview images in Windows Vista, you may see a blank screen without an indication of an error.

Note: Windows Photo Gallery is the default application for previewing images.

In Windows Photo Gallery, you add some metadata to a picture file. When you open this picture in a third-party tool, some metadata fields for the picture file may be duplicated, dropped, or corrupted.

This issue occurs in Windows XP, in Windows Vista, and in Windows Server 2008.

For example, you open and save a .jpg picture in Windows Photo Gallery, and then you embed some metadata into the picture by using a third-party application. When you open this picture in Adobe Photoshop, you receive an error.

In this example, if you open the .jpg file in a hexadecimal editor, you see duplicated XMP metadata tags. One metadata tag is set to xmp:xmpmeta and the other one is set to x:xmpmeta.

A 1 min 39sec Korean Windows Vista commercial staring Ji Hyun Woo. This one shows him doing a photoshoot, and using Vista to show, organize, and edit the pictures from the shoot.

A 1 min 39sec Korean Windows Vista commercial staring Ji Hyun Woo. This one shows glimpses of Media Center, a digital picture frame, and the Samsung UMPC working with Vista.

If you create a redirected folder, such as C:\NewPicturesFolder, and then set the new folder as the Pictures target folder by using Windows Explorer, when you start Windows Live Photo Gallery it does not recognize or open the new folder.

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On a Windows Vista-based computer, you delete a picture in the Picture Library in Windows Media Center. The picture thumbnail still appears in the Picture Library. The picture thumbnail appears in the Picture Library until you exit and then return to the Picture Library.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, when you delete a picture in Windows Media Center, you receive an error message that resembles the following:

AUDIO ERROR

The Url contains one or more invalid characters.

After you search for a picture in Windows Vista, you receive the following error message when you try to print the picture from the Search window:

Windows can’t find this picture. You might have specified the wrong location, or you have lost access to a network location. Check the location, and then try again.