Organizing Pictures In My Pictures - HP Media Center m1000 - Desktop PC Software Manual

Organizing Pictures in My Pictures

For Media Center to find and display your pictures,
they can be stored in several places:
The My Pictures folder on your
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computer.
The Shared Pictures folder on your
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computer, which allows you to share your
pictures with others.
On other removable media such as a memory
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card, a DVD-ROM, or a CD-ROM.
Creating picture folders in My Pictures
1
Click Start
then click My Pictures to open the My
Pictures folder in Windows Explorer.
2
Select the File menu, select New, and then
click Folder. Type a name for your personal
picture folder.
3
Locate your picture files and move them to
the My Pictures folder in Windows Explorer:
a
Click Start, My Computer, and then
select the drive or removable device
where your pictures are located.
b
Click and drag your photos to your
My Pictures folder.
c
You can add, delete, rename, and
organize your picture files into specific
folders within My Pictures, such as
Vacation or Birthday.
When you save pictures from your digital camera or
scanner to your computer, Windows automatically
stores them in the My Pictures folder in Windows
Explorer unless you manually store them in another
place.
Before opening Media Center and viewing your
pictures, you may want to spend some time
organizing your pictures by creating picture folders
in the My Pictures folder in Windows Explorer.
on the taskbar, and
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Each user has a
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separate My
Pictures folder that
can be opened only
by that person. You
can share pictures
by storing them in
the Shared Pictures
folder.
When you
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download pictures
from the Internet,
you can use the
browser in
Windows Explorer
to place your
pictures in the My
Pictures folder.
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Working with Pictures