Windows Live Photo Gallery replacement

Anonymous
2017-02-04T21:21:12+00:00

Does anyone have a replacement suggestion for Windows Live Photo Gallery? Been using it for a long time. Over 60,000 pictures all with tags. Had to do a clean install of Windows 10. When I went to reinstall Windows Live Photo Gallery it states that as Jan 10th, it's no longer supported and I cannot reinstall it. So what's out there that would recognize my tags? Tried ACDSEE but it doesn't see my tags. Was hopping that there would be a seamless switch as I'm not going to live long enough to re-tag 60000 pictures.

Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video

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2017-02-04T21:49:26+00:00

As of this morning, February 4, 2017,

Windows Essentials 2012 download offline installer (Microsoft site) is still available.

Windows Essentials 2012

Support Ended January 10, 2017

Although support has ended, Windows Essentials 2012 programs will continue to work.

Windows Essentials 2012 contains the following programs:

Photo Gallery (Windows Photo Gallery 2012 Build 16.4.3528.331)

Movie Maker (Version 2012 Build 16.4.3528.0331)

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Mail (Version 2012 Build 16.4.3564.1216)

OneDrive

Windows Essentials 2012 Installer installs Windows Essentials 2012 Version 16.4.3528.0331

The package shows in installed programs as Windows Essentials 2012.

Release Notes on Windows Essentials 2012:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13785

It would be wise to download and save a copy of Windows Essentials 2012 (Offline Installer) to a separate disk as backup.

Windows Essentials 2012 (Microsoft Offline Installer) wlsetup-all.exe

http://g.live.com/1rewlive5-all/en/wlsetup-all.exe

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2017-04-18T15:05:40+00:00

Although support has ended, Windows Essentials 2012 programs will continue to work.

Windows Essentials 2012 contains the following programs:

Photo Gallery (Windows Photo Gallery 2012 Build 16.4.3528.331)

Movie Maker (Version 2012 Build 16.4.3528.0331)

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Mail (Version 2012 Build 16.4.3564.1216)

OneDrive

Windows Essentials 2012 offline installer is here (in the last post at the bottom of the thread):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-wlinstall/windows-essentials-2012-microsoft-offline/0dbbd92a-991c-48d7-8157-26decd351da8

At the bottom of the thread in the last post are two links provided by ¡Firedog.

These two links are active links for Windows Essentials 2012 offline installer.

Please read to the bottom of the thread.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-01T04:41:37+00:00

    Very interested if you found anything that would import the tagging

    . Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-18T14:49:13+00:00

    Does anyone have a replacement suggestion for Windows Live Photo Gallery? Been using it for a long time. Over 60,000 pictures all with tags. Had to do a clean install of Windows 10. When I went to reinstall Windows Live Photo Gallery it states that as Jan 10th, it's no longer supported and I cannot reinstall it. So what's out there that would recognize my tags? Tried ACDSEE but it doesn't see my tags. Was hopping that there would be a seamless switch as I'm not going to live long enough to re-tag 60000 pictures.

    I have searched for hours. I have a new computer. I want Photo Gallery on my computer. But sinds 2017 you can't download it anymore. Picasa is no option. To much rubbish. The windows Photo Editor is also for housewifes. The only program I can work with this moment is Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.  But with Photo Gallery I worked very quick.  It had everything i needed. Now it's gone.

    I downloaded the file on the bottom of this site. It works very good. Thanks guys !!

     https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-wlinstall/windows-essentials-2012-microsoft-offline/0dbbd92a-991c-48d7-8157-26decd351da8

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-02-06T19:09:26+00:00

    I am also trying out different alternatives, as the Windows 10 Photos App has yet to convince me due to it lacking a lot of the tagging and captioning features.

    I have tried ACDSee, Photo Supreme, as well as the open source Digikam. Also pending on my list to try out is IMatch.

    I still have not used them enough to give you a good opinion, but straight off the bat - I miss the quick speed and ease of WPG. Photo Supreme and Digikam will recognize People tags as well as Geotags. Digikam takes some time to get used to and it is highly configurable. I am trying to avoid Adobe.

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