Just got windows 8.1. Portrait pics show up as landscape on TBN ????

[Bird]

WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown.

You ARE kidding, I presume.

 

[oldpilgrim]

WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown.

I agree. At first I didn't think it was a full startup it went so fast.

 

[Soundguy]

i've had 0 problems using my win8.1 phone sending pics to my win8.1 RT surface tablet. My phone is a better camera than phone.. it's the nokia 1020 lumia. lots of camera, and somewhere on the circuit board they wired in enough electronics so it can make a telephone call too.

first off - windows 8.1 users were supposed to get win9 free updates this month , but MS decided to skip and go straight to windows 10 . They were going to bring back the start button but combine the tiles format IN the start button. sigh!
anyways If your camera can detect whether you take pictures vertically or horizontally (usually by using a sensor that can tell how the camera is oriented), your computer can automatically rotate JPEG pictures to the correct orientation when they are imported. If you use this option, you will not have to manually rotate pictures that appear sideways on your computer, and it does not affect the image quality of your pictures. Windows does this by default, but you can turn this feature off.

In windows gallery app -So question is - does your camera has a orientation sensor? of not, it will not auto rotate for you. doesnt matter if it a hand held or phone type. If it does, you can turn the feature on, but I am baffled since I thought it was on by default.

 

[Gordon Gould]

first off - windows 8.1 users were supposed to get win9 free updates this month , but MS decided to skip and go straight to windows 10 . They were going to bring back the start button but combine the tiles format IN the start button. sigh!
anyways If your camera can detect whether you take pictures vertically or horizontally (usually by using a sensor that can tell how the camera is oriented), your computer can automatically rotate JPEG pictures to the correct orientation when they are imported. If you use this option, you will not have to manually rotate pictures that appear sideways on your computer, and it does not affect the image quality of your pictures. Windows does this by default, but you can turn this feature off.

In windows gallery app -So question is - does your camera has a orientation sensor? of not, it will not auto rotate for you. doesnt matter if it a hand held or phone type. If it does, you can turn the feature on, but I am baffled since I thought it was on by default.

Thank you for all the help you guys are trying to give me. I appreciate it.

I found out that my camera does have a sensor to detect horizontal or vertical hold position. It can't be turned off. And the windows 8.1 photo viewer does indeed rotate the picture automatically so it is viewed in the correct orientation when a vertical ( Portrait ) picture is taken. But, and a big but if you upload the picture to TBN or other forums it is not automatically rotated and appears 90* off just like the camera was held. If you then rotate the original ( that was originally displayed correctly ) by 90* in an attempt to correct the uploaded images low and behold the uploaded images are now rotated 90* to far. I kid you not. There is no way I can make it upload a portrait oriented photo.

The only other big problem (so far) I have had with 8,1 was connecting the email to a pop3 device, but I got thru that one in two days after a call to the phone company which I should have done first.

 

[rekees4300]

I don't get it. WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown.

I have WIN8, keep getting popups saying free WIN8.1 upgrade is available ... lipstick on a pig. Just going to wait for WIN10 next year.

 

[Soundguy]

You ARE kidding, I presume.

it really does depend. I use a variety of tablets and netbooks.. ( CONVERTABLE..E TC )

i KNOW ASUS NETBOOKS OFFER A FASTBOOT FEATURE.

mY WIFE HAS A WIN8 LAPTOP AS WELL. ( darn capslock )

all of them boot faster than a winxp desktop i resurected a few weeks ago... or my vista laptop at work.

 

[dfkrug]

You ARE kidding, I presume.

Kidding? Not me. Yeah, change is hard, but that extra speed is great. New ASUS desktop,
and a cheap Intel G3220 Pentium 3GHz processor.

 

[Xfaxman]

--- WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown. ---

You ARE kidding, I presume.

What is your startup time?

Shutdown could not be any faster, when I click Hibernate the screen goes blank.

I checked startup this morning, pushed Power, 20 blazing-fast seconds later I was reading email.

I have a Dell XPS18 All-In-One. I don't plan on going to Windows 10 at this time.

 

[radioman]

Thank you for all the help you guys are trying to give me. I appreciate it.

I found out that my camera does have a sensor to detect horizontal or vertical hold position. It can't be turned off. And the windows 8.1 photo viewer does indeed rotate the picture automatically so it is viewed in the correct orientation when a vertical ( Portrait ) picture is taken. But, and a big but if you upload the picture to TBN or other forums it is not automatically rotated and appears 90* off just like the camera was held. If you then rotate the original ( that was originally displayed correctly ) by 90* in an attempt to correct the uploaded images low and behold the uploaded images are now rotated 90* to far. I kid you not. There is no way I can make it upload a portrait oriented photo.

The only other big problem (so far) I have had with 8,1 was connecting the email to a pop3 device, but I got thru that one in two days after a call to the phone company which I should have done first.

Sounds like you were uploading pics directly from camera to tbn instead of importing to pc folder and then pick pics from the pc folder directly.

I have WIN8, keep getting popups saying free WIN8.1 upgrade is available ... lipstick on a pig. Just going to wait for WIN10 next year.

I hope you are kidding. Unless you like the win 8 ways, I prefer 8.1 . its more familiar to desktop, it lets you do MORE desktop stuff from apps screen, gives you an apps list, updated explorer for better security, etc. I dont care if the updates is free -- its part of MS security and improvements - just do it. If you dont, then you fall in the catergory of those who help to infect other pcs without protecting your own pc. Look - I'm sorry if I sound harsh but its a pet peeve of mine where poeple say they have problems and I go and take a look. They havent EVEN done ONE updates. This is irresponsible IMHO. Whats the harm of accepting updates from a known source .. IE Microsoft updates.

 

[rekees4300]

I spent a couple months tweaking WIN8 to make it resemble WIN7. I don't use or even display the ludicrous "apps screen". When I power up it goes directly to the desktop. I do apply all updates to WIN8 but WIN8.1 is an upgrade (not an update). I'm not going to risk 8.1 wiping out all the time I have spent tweaking 8. I also don't like the fact you have to open a M$ST account in order to install 8.1. I decline to give those propeller-heads any of my personal info! Their so-called "store" is a joke.