Microsoft Picture It incompatability with Windows 7 and alternatives for .mix files.

Anonymous
2009-12-18T06:22:35+00:00

I have been using Microsoft Picture It for years to design tons of graphics for my business and now I have purchased a new pc loaded with Windows 7 and find that my true love Picture It! is not compatable.  I never dreamed this would be the case for a software that isn't even a decade old or that new pc I just spent thousands on would be sitting right back at the store it came from.  I really feel that Microsoft has cheated me out of something I paid for and invested so much work in by making it unusable and it has brought my small business to a standstill.  What other program is available that is compatable with Windows 7 that will allow me to edit and view existing .mix and other Picture It! format files and contain all the capabilities of Picture It?  I would be willing to purchase additional software from Microsoft to make Picture It compatable to Windows 7 if necessary.

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Anonymous
2011-03-14T18:21:06+00:00

Hello all,

I know that you are all disappointed that Microsoft Picture It is not compatible with Windows 7. 

Your feedback would be better heard if you send it to the Windows 7 Feedback site.

http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195

These are your options when software is not compatible:

If the program is not compatible, then you may try to install and run the program in compatibility mode.

Use the following steps:

1)      Right click on the Program

2)      Click on Properties

3)      Click on Compatibility tab

4)      Select Run this program in compatibility mode and select Windows XP, Windows Vista or whatever operating system the program was running successfully.

Refer to the link here: Make older programs run in this version of Windows

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows

If you run Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate version, install Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx) and execute your software in Windows XP.

If you run Windows 7 Home Premium, try VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org) or VMware Player

(www.vmware.com) or any other 3party virtualization software and install a separate copy of Windows XP (either Home Edition or Professional) for that purpose. You can find virtualization software free of charge that will run on Windows 7 Home Premium. 

Sincerely,

Marilyn

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-12-31T16:21:00+00:00

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    John Presland:

    I want you to consider something. Just for a moment, imagine that there may be a subject in the world about which you do not have the superior, expert view.

    I suspect this will be difficult for you, as you seem to imagine yourself the font of all earthly knowledge, but give it a shot for the sake of conversation.

    It isn't as easy as just trying other programs. Of course I could do that. Of course I have done that. Of course I have tried those.

    The problem is not that those programs do not work at all. The problem is that they do not work the way I -- or all the rest of us here -- need them to.  All they do is something somewhat similar, but not the same. And none of them will open or even recognize the voluminousness work that has already been created in PictureIt.  

    In short, you don't know what you're talking about. You don't get the point, and missing it, you have been offering empty, pointless, let-them-eat-cake alternatives so void of an actual solution, one can only suspect that you work for Microsoft, yourself.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-31T16:58:08+00:00

    Thanks! I'm not sure. I'll have to check that today.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-31T17:28:08+00:00

    For anyone who doesn't know where that setting is:

    On the main menu, click View, click Options.

    On the box that come up, click Advanced Options (near the bottom in PI 2000.)

    The default is "Photographic." Select "Professional" instead. You'll probably get a warning that opening large images takes a lot of resources, but you can probably ignore than unless you are using a very old computer with very low system resources. 

    The setting works well for me on an old Compaq Evo with a P4/1.5  and 2 gigs of RAM. I think the hard drive is 120 gigs.  50

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-12-31T17:30:12+00:00

    Calm down everyone. Please don't let this turn into where these last two replies are headed.

    Marianne... in one of John's earliest posts, he stated that he only used PI for collages that he then saved to JPEG files. Later, when I referred to the MIX file type, he admitted not knowing what that was at all. My point is that he never used PI the was you, me and others did and do so the other options out there meet his needs and have provided him even better functionality.

    John... Your evaluations and recommendations are based on your specific use of PI in the past and now, the new products. You state in one reply that the range of editing in what you are currently using is greater than PI. I will agree that I have seen programs with more enhanced "photo" editing capabilities but that is not what we are referring to in our complaints.  I would ask you to reread our posts and the functionality we are looking for in anything new. 

    None of us are inflexible so please, let's not be unkind.

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