This is a nasty, nasty application whose installer tries to change Internet Explorer's Start page, which uses its own routine for registering DLL's, which fails on my Vista system with DEP enabled. I thought about registering the DLL's it installed myself, but there are so many, I didn't want to waste my time figuring out which ones it needs (it clearly doesn't try to register them all). It installs a ridiculously ancient version of the Lame encoder. In fact, all of its DLL's are circa 2003-2005. This is why I hate even bothering to test multimedia apps. Of course, this all goes back to major design flaws (or lack of design) in Windows.

An FYI regarding IE8--it applies Protected Mode on a per-tab basis, which saves you from the prompts and multiple instances of IE7.

Fubar  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+173)

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Warning!

This software will try to change your browsers home page to their site.

Why on earth would anyone want a software page as a home page, Nasty.

Steve  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+136)

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Not sure what some people above are talking about: this works on Vista Home Premium 32-bit for me. My DEP settings are at default, which are to protect Windows programs/services.

The Good
* Works in a straightforward fashion/easy to understand what to do.
* Supports multiple input images formats.
* You can add background sound/music.
* You can choose from many transitional slide effects.
* You can add subtitles to each image.
* Supports multiple input sound formats for background sound.
* Will rip the sound off a video to use for background sound if you tell it to do so.
* You can output into AVI, MPG/MPEG, WMV and RM video formats.
* You can crop background sound files.

The Bad
* No proper text labels on some program buttons/tabs.
* Cumbersome resize of images.
* During installation it changes the default homepage of Internet Explorer to developer's website.
* There are no slide effects (I am not talking about transitional slide effects).
* You can't drag the subtitles around to place them in a certain location.
* No subtitle effects.
* Program crashes or freezes arbitrarily.
* Does not detect any AVI codecs for me.
* Output video is never exactly the size you specify.
* Sometimes the GUI messes up/does not display properly.
* Does not have the ability to output into a Flash format (SWF/FLV).

Registration and installation
Registration and installation went fine. However, there are two things to note:

* During installation, the program will change your Internet Explorer homepage to the developer's website. Good thing WinPatrol prompted me about it and I blocked it.
* The button that you must press to open the registration window where you must enter your registration information (that you attain from readme.txt) is not well labeled or obvious. It is located in the bottom right corner of the program

Free Alternatives
Windows Movie Maker
FastStone Image Viewer
Photo Story 3

Verdict
Today you will have to visit the full review for verdict =) However I can tell you I do not recommend Photo Slideshow.

Full Review: Click here please

Ashraf  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+71)

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@ 10. Johan Eloff: I have installed it in Vista. It does work and run.

@ 9. Steve: I hate that. Luckily I had a nice Anti Spyware installed in my system which detected this and warned me. I blocked the homepage change process.

@ 4. HiLARY: Yup! For me also registration was tricky. It took me 2 minutes to find where to register. For those who are having similar problem. Follow the steps below.

1. Run the program.(Run as Administrator)
2. See a big start Button. The button just right to that button is registration button. It is small and has image of keys. Click it.
3. Enter any user name in usernam box. Put the serial number and click OK. Its done.

Give me some cheers if it was helpful.

Agent 001  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+59)

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this does not even show up at all on their home page and not in their support section either,,if you do click on the link abouve you see it on the page but when you click on it it takes you to dvd express ...sorry can't find no info on this program at all not even in product list really weired..so don't know

crazyhouse  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+56)

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