There's a caveat to all this that Shelly Rae mentioned, but may have gone unnoticed. Microsoft has discontinued DIP and DIS. They are no longer supporting it and at some point, it will cease to function. Boo! Hiss! Hiss! I would make the change now while your collection is small. You never know when that may change. It sort of sneaks up on you and you suddenly realize you have WAY more than you thought you did. Personally, I would use ACDSee because it will allow you to transfer your files to CD/DVD (through ACDSee) and remove them from your disk while retaining thumbnails for your view ease.

I am very much afraid that all of us die hards are in for a sad future. I hate PSE, but gonna have to learn it. Future Windows updates will eventually end any possibility of using my program and that is probably not that far away. Once a new version of Windows comes out, they stop supporting the oldest ones to force people to move on. I have XP, but 2000 and ME are already dinosaurs and will soon disappear. Then again, maybe I'll get the ACDSee editor. It's supposed to be very good and very friendly.

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