 Bernie Epstein |
How to uninstall Canon'sDigital Photo Professional I recently downloaded and installed Digital Photo Professional 2.0.3.7 and find that it slows down any process that uses Windows Explorer, such as displaying a list of files from Explorer or Photoshop, especially if a folder contains many files (e.g. 400 16-bit TIFFs). I'm using PS CS2 for RAW processing and can do without DPP. I want to uninstall it, but can't find any help in the application. There may have been a PDF, but I can't find it. Any suggestions? I'm running a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz with 2 GB of RAM and plenty of GDD space. TIA Bernie Epstein
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Bernie, If you go to your Control Panel and choose "Add or Remove Programs", you can uninstall it from there. But I don't really see why it would be slowing down Windows Explorer functions. Is it because your Explorer window is trying to display thumbnails? If so, this doesn't really have anything to do with DPP. There are a few things you can do to speed things up. If you want to show thumbnails in your folders, do this: In Windows Explorer, choose Tools, Folder Options, then click the View tab. The 7th line from the top says "Do not cache thumbnails". You want to uncheck this box. The thumbnails will take some time to show up at first, but then it will be quicker the next time you view the directory. If you don't want to show thumbnails, there is a setting a little farther down on the same tab as above that says "Remember each folder's view settings". If you check this, and select details instead of thumbnails, then it will stay that way. Chris
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Bernie Epstein |
Chris: Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, DPP is not a standard application which appears in the Add/Remove Programs list, so it can't be uninstalled from there. It piggybacks on Windows Explorer, and it definitely slows down all Explorer-type displays, superimposing its own file-type logo after the one I have set (PS CS2) displays. Although it probably works fine for folders with JPEGs, It's really a bloody nuisance with a large folder of high-resolution files. I am not displaying thumbnails. I remember being puzzled when I set it up, since it does not install like a standard program, and now I don't remember how I did it (so that I could possibly reverse the process). Bernie
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Bernie, I'm confused, are you sure we're talking about the same program? I have DPP version 2.0.3.7, and it shows up in my Add/Remove Programs List. It works as a standard application, and doesn't affect Windows Explorer at all. At least not on my computer. I don't remember choosing anything special when I installed it, but maybe I did. I used to have a program installed that sounded like what you are describing. I think it was called Pictage, or something like that. It was kind of a catalogging program where you could add keywords to the EXIF data. But it slowed things down so I uninstalled it. I use the RAW thumbnail viewer from Microsoft and have found it to be very fast. I use it to view directories with hundreds of RAW files or RAW files processed to 16-bit TIFFs, and it's fast. Chris
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Bernie Epstein |
Chris: You are correct. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the problem was not the Canon S/W. I had installed PixVue, a freebie EXIF aid and didn't remember the name (and I also found my link to the single page of online instructions). PixVue did show up in Add/Remove programs and uninstalled easily. Too many programs! I really like BreezbrowserPro for quick viewing, comparing, etc. and now I also use it for adding EXIF info. I use PS CS2 with ACR for developing RAWs (much improved over the original CS version). Thanks again for responding and sorry fr the "noise". Bernie
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Christopher A. Vedros |
That's the one! PixVue is the one I had also, not Pictage. It sounded good in theory, but it made browsing through files too slow. We just needed to jog each other's memory. ;-) Chris
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