Article ID: 947016 - Last Review: January 18, 2008 - Revision: 1.0

Slide show pictures may not be centered on a widescreen display when you start a slide show in Windows Photo Gallery on a Windows Vista-based computer

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SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario.

You use a Windows Vista-based computer.
You use a widescreen monitor that is attached to a video card.
The video card uses a Uniform Memory Access (UMA)-based video card driver.

Note UMA-based video card drivers are associated with integrated video chipsets. There is no indicator in the operating system that informs you whether a driver or a chipset uses UMA architecture.

In this scenario, if the Windows Experience Index (WEI) score is greater than or equal to 3.0 in Windows Vista, slide show pictures are not displayed in the center of the screen. Instead, the slide show pictures are displayed on the left side or the right side of the screen.

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STATUS

In this scenario, you have to view the slide show pictures the way they are displayed on the screen.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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MORE INFORMATION

The Windows Experience Index is a new feature in Windows Vista that helps determine how software will perform on your computer. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/experienceindex.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/experienceindex.mspx)

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