There are twp photo programs included with Vista Office Picture Manager and
Windows Photo Gallery.

If you upgraded from XP the file association may have ?carried over". Right
click one of the photos - select "Open With" - browse and select Windows
Photo Gallery for default - or whatever other program you have installed.

"Barry" <hiouchibear@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> This is the default viewer in Vista for images. I take high resolution
> digital images that MS Photo Editor will not open. I have to open them in
> Adobe Photoshop CS2. I was told by the local computer shop that this is
> "normal" on Vista and that you have to use an alternate program to open
> high resolution images. I didn't have this problem with XP. Why do I
> have such a problem with Vista if it's supposed to be an "upgrade" from
> XP?
>
> Barry