If you are trying to run Windows XP with Panda A/V on a 128MB machine, memory is your problem. XP wants 512MB minimum to think about performing, and is much happier with a gigabyte or two.tazzels wrote:Yes thanks, I have tried gqview as dejan5 recommended that. I am happy with the slideshow viewer in puppy 431 but I just need to see thumbs of my photos so I can organise them. I have a 40 gb hard drive so storage not a problem, neither is memory as I have been running windows xp with panda virus checker, it is just slow! I was able to view my pics as thumbs and run a slide show under windows but internet was painfully slow. I really want to switch to Puppy away from XP
The old notebook I run Puppy on has 256MB of RAM, and came from the vendor with XP installed. The person who gave it to me had upgraded to a faster box and said it was "slow slow slow". XP in 256MB? No surprise. I installed Puppy precisely to have something I could use without growing old and gray waiting for things to happen.
Memory might be your problem in Puppy, too. Programs that must create thumbnails may not have the resources needed to do the work.
I just copied a random assortment of photoos from my Windoes desktop over to my Puppy machine. I normally use Xfce4 as my window manager instead of Puppy's default JWM. The photos showed as thumbnails in both Thunar, the file manager provided with Xfce4, and in Xfe. They did not show as thumbnails in Rox, Puppy's default file manager. XnView rendered them as thumbnails fine.
I believe you are running Puppy in a Full install? What sort of swap file do you have? IT might be interesting if you opened a terminal window and ran XnView or whichever from the command line. It will open in a new window, but it may print diagnostic messages to the terminal window that will help you narrow down what is going on.
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Dennis