viewing pictures in XP explorer and rotate flag

Hi,

I have a Nikon D50 which sets the rotate flag when I shoot in portrait mode.

I have just this week installed Photoshop Elements and Nikon View 6.

Nevertheless, I often just want to browse my pictures (stored in a tree of directory folders) from Windows XP Explorer. Both, the small "icon picture" and the large picture when I double click in the directory are not rotated, the pictures shows in landscap mode (wrong) and not in portrait.

Question: Can I load a Windows XP Patch so my default viewer observers the portrait mode (also for the icon size pictures!). Or do I need to use a different viewer?

Sorry for the beginner question and my poor command of the English language.

Cheers,

Alex
Zurich, Switzerland

i don't know if there is a patch to fix that. you can try 2 things... check your camera settings and if there is an option to "auto rotate" the images so when you review the image on your camera it displays it as a protrait.

and then import them into windows . if that does not work then you will have to manually rotate them...... and once you've rotated them windows stores that info in the thumnails file it creates in the directory. good luck

Use Downloader Pro from http://www.breezesys.com/ to transfer your pics from camera or CF cardreader to computer. It automatically rotates all the portrait shots so they show up correctly in Windows explorer.
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Mike

try picasa http://picasa.google.com (free)
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Paul A Roberts

or any other transfer program...

Not exactly what the original author was asking. I too would like Windows explorer to recognize the rotate flag and auto rotate the pictures for viewing purposes only... I don't want windows to rotate and resave them... unless it can do so losslessly.