Changing the View Mode in Vista’s Photo Gallery

If you want to change the view mode of the Windows Photo Gallery software, this option may not be as easy to find as one would expect, especially because the way this program's interface was conceived. Microsoft's choice was to take some options out of the menus and bring them one step closer to the user, and while this may be a good move for novice Windows users, experts may find themselves lost for a while...


Today, I will show you how to change the view mode of the Windows Photo Gallery, as I was saying, but I'll also show you how to sort your pictures, as a bonus. Here we go...

- First of all, press the Start Orb, type "gallery" and open the Windows Photo Gallery.


- Navigate to the folder where your pictures are located. I will use the ones that are already available in Vista Ultimate.

- Press the small button located to the left of the search box, and select a new view mode.


- Go to Group By to change this setting, if you need.


- If you want to change sorting criteria, choose a different option in the Sort By submenu.


- Check the Table of Contents view below, maybe this is what you were looking for!


While Windows Photo Gallery is available in all Vista versions, the themed photo slideshows are only available in the Home Premium and Ultimate ones, but I'll leave this topic for a future article. This is it for now, I hope you found out something new today, and you'll get back tomorrow too!