July 2008 Archives

Today I was doing my normal thing at work when I double clicked on a jpg that was on my desktop.  I expected this file to open quickly as a preview in Windows Photo Gallery as they always do.  Except this time, nothing  happened. I quickly restarted my computer, thinking that something may be hung in memory, but upon logging back into my fresh desktop, the same thing happened again.

Upon doing a little bit of reasearch, I saw that I had dragged a link from Internet Explorer onto my desktop.  This created an internet shortcut with a long, Internet Explorer assigned name.  This link was not anything I needed and wasn't even intentionally dragged to my desktop, so I deleted it.

After deleting it, Windows Photo Gallery opened my JPGs with no problem.

What I believe happened was that the name of the shortcut was way too long for Windows Photo Gallery to parse when it scanned the folder I tried to open my JPG in, thus preventing it from opening.

Problem Sovled.