Photo Viewer problems

**buf** · February 1st, 2013, 06:21 PM

For several days I have received emails from friends to view pics. In the past, I have just clicked on the download link given me and saved it to my desktop where I can check for any virus and I then see the pics whereas now I get get this message: Photo Viewer can't open this photo because Photo Viewer does not support this file format or you don't have the latest updates to Photo Viewer. I am not having success in getting whatever updates there are that may be available.
I can see the pics if I choose to view them on line but that is not my preferred way to see them. Can anyone help me out with this problem. As usual, TIA.

**jdc2000** · February 1st, 2013, 06:49 PM

buf -

What file extension do these latest images have?

**buf** · February 1st, 2013, 09:19 PM

Hi jdc and thanks for posting back. I was just coming back here to say that I left out an important part of my thread. Some words to the effect that the viewer does not support the type file(s) I am opening. AND with your prompting, these appear to be PPS. I think I recall that the free version of PPS for windows 7 is 7. The thought just occurs to me that since my recent problems with Boot Disk, I may no longer have PPS installed.

**jdc2000** · February 1st, 2013, 10:34 PM

.pps files are PowerPoint files. Microsoft has a free viewer for those:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...ails.aspx?id=6

**buf** · February 2nd, 2013, 02:09 PM

Thanks for the link but I haven't been able to get it to work--yet. Control shows it installed but it is not listed in my programs. I deleted it and then downloaded and installed it again and I still get the message that I first showed above.

**dneilson** · February 2nd, 2013, 04:13 PM

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ses-by-default

**jdc2000** · February 3rd, 2013, 12:25 AM

While you are working on the file association issue for .pps files (dneilson's link), what thappens when you run the PowerPoint viewer and then select the file from that program?

**buf** · February 3rd, 2013, 05:05 PM

Thanks yet again jdc and the message I get is the same as the one first reported; namely: Photo Viewer can't open this photo because Photo Viewer does not support this file format or you don't have the latest updates to Photo Viewer. I can see the pics if I choose to view them on line so that isn't a problem but I would rather have the PPS feature.

**dneilson** · February 3rd, 2013, 07:06 PM

PHP Code:


or you don't have the latest updates to Photo Viewer.

Have you verified that you have the latest updates?

**buf** · February 3rd, 2013, 11:59 PM

I thought I had but then again I still have a non-functioning Photo Viewer. Thanks for your continued interest and help.

**jdc2000** · February 4th, 2013, 12:07 AM

Photo Viewer is not designed to open .pps files. You need PowerPoint Viewer.

**Train** · February 4th, 2013, 05:03 AM

Download the file. Do not try to open the file now.
Open power point viewer and navigate to the file. Select it and if it is a .pps , it will open and play.
I have gotten a few that were partially corrupted, but was able to save them using power point and correction the error on most of them.

**foxy** · February 11th, 2013, 03:38 AM

And for other pix. instead of Photo Viewer, download Irfanview, which supports 200 file formats, including sound files. It's free and easy to use.

**buf** · February 11th, 2013, 11:19 PM

Thanks foxy but no thanks. I used Irfanview years ago and liked it then. I just looked at this ap and it's only confusion to me now. PPS is being a pain but I won't worry about it.

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