[getonyournerves]

Hello Everyone
This is my 1st post on this Forum,so please be patient with me.

When i try to open a picture in Windows Photo Gallery i get this message-
(This picture can,t be displayed. You might not have enough memory available.
Close some programs or,if your hard disc is almost full,free some disc space
and try again.).
I have nothing running and have plenty of memory and disc space.(I can open pictures with any other program,PsP, Photoshop,Nero-etc)This is annoying as i use Photo Gallery Viewer to display pics one by one.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks in advance
Craig

[ballpark570]

Are you using a USB thumb drive for the "Ready boost" ?

[getonyournerves]

Thanks for your reply
Sorry, but i dont know what you mean?.
Dont know anything about Ready Boost
Craig

[Wantingtoknow]

I am having the exact same problem with my Windows Photo Gallery...

[TRAFMAN]

I am also having this problem. If i double click an image to open in Windows Photo Gallery (default image viewer) the screen just stays white where the image sshould be. If I then click go to gallery and try to open an image from there I get the memory error message, even though I have plenty of RAM and HDD space available.

[DaveA]

For both of you, how much RAM do you have?
You may think you have enough RAM, but, it sounds like you do NOT.

[Wantingtoknow]

I have 1023Mb of RAM

[DaveA]

Running Vista you need 2 Gigs.

1023Mb of RAM is NOT going to display any very large photos.

[Noyb]

Don't know if this'll help, but I replaced Windows Photo Gallery with Irfanview.
http://www.irfanview.com/ .... It can edit Images ... M$ PG can't

It's a clean install/uninstall .. and it would be interesting if this would fix your problems.

[TRAFMAN]

Normally I use 2GB of RAM, but currently I have 4GB in there, so that definitly isn't the problem. I have 90+GB free on my drive where all the images are and 3GB free on my windows install drive, so I doubt this is the problem for opening a few 2MB Jpegs.

I'm sure irfanview would work, as any other image viewer works (Photoshop, paint, etc.), the point is I want to get Windows Photo Gallery working again as it's the most handy for a quick slideshow or whatever.

I tried reverting to the default monitor driver, which didn't work. I Might try updating GFX drivers later, but since it didn't break the same time I changed any driver I doubt it is the root of the problem.

Thanks for the ideas guys

[Peter Komar]

Originally Posted by DaveA

Running Vista you need 2 Gigs.

1023Mb of RAM is NOT going to display any very large photos.

You can run Vista just fine with 1 gig and it takes very little ram to open any picture including a video file.

[Noyb]

Originally Posted by TRAFMAN

I'm sure irfanview would work ... the point is I want to get Windows Photo Gallery working again as it's the most handy for a quick slideshow or whatever.

Apparently you have tried Irfanview, It's as fast (if not faster) as M$ PG, and does a lot more with only a ~1MB program

[TRAFMAN]

Hmm, i'm not sure what has done it but gallery has started working again. Maybe it was the monitor driver and it just needd a proper restart instead of just going into sleep mode. Whoever else had this problem, thry going to device manager (Right click "computer" in start menu; properties; device manager (left hand side); look in the monitors section; open the properties on your monitor; Go to the drivers tab; roll back driver.

Do a full shutdown and boot up, see if it works.

For the record I have a Hyundai N91W monitor, using a driver that was downloaded for it automatically on windows update.

[jezzabo]

i had the same problem, after reading the last post and seeing that you had the same monitor, Hyundai N91W, i rolled back the driver, restarted and all is fine now, cheers