In Part 1, you learned a little about Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 and how to install it in Windows 7. In Part 2, you will learn more about the available settings and the most important features of this version.

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Windows Live Photo Gallery, Part 2

When you run it for the first time, you will be asked to sign in to your Windows Live account. If you have an account, enter it or just click the Cancel button.

Now it's time to have fun viewing and managing images. As you can see in the image below, you can hover over the image thumbnail to see a larger preview. On the left is the navigation pane for browsing and sorting images (the "Date Captured" and "Descriptive Tags" sorting options are not enabled by default, you can easily enable them by going to the File "Options" menu and selecting these settings in the "General" tab). At the top is the now familiar ribbon (or Fluent UI) with all the commands you need to accomplish a task.

In the Options section of Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, you can configure various settings, such as: