Comments on: 10 Things I love and hate about Google Picasa

By: Russ

Russ — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000

I can have Picasa open and windows explorer open at the same time. Images I can clearly see in a folder in Explorer are not shown in Picasa for the same location. “Refresh thumbnails” doesn’t help either. I even tried “scan each time”, but that didn’t result in the new photos being visible in Picasa. I like the photo editing capabilities of Picasa as opposed to the software that I paid for, but if Picasa doesn’t even show the photo, the editing capabilities are pretty much worthless.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

ignore my post above; I needed to restart Picassa, but Picassa seems to freeze up before any of my slideshows can complete. It seems unstable.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I tried the slimKEYS fix for the secondary monitor. The slide show image moves over to the secondary screen, but the show does not progress through the photos (it stays static on one unless I click it). Any solutions to that?

By: boo

boo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

found a “fix” for issue #4 - getting the slideshow to display on secondary monitor. download and install the excellent slimkeys (google it). run picasa and start the slideshow. it starts on the primary. now press CTRL-WIN-5 (the 5 on the numeric pad), and the slideshow moves over to the secondary monitor. only caveat: the picasa win stays on the primary and won’t show the mouse. if you minimize it, it will also minimize the slideshow. sure as heck beats Vista Media Center slideshow which hogs the mouse in maximize mode!!