Windows Live Photo Gallery
Photo management and sharing: It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which was a part of Windows Vista with Windows Live. The application is available for download bundled with Windows Movie Maker via the Windows Essentials 2012 suite.
No longer supported and downloadable, together with 
Windows Essentials . It has been succeeded by the built-in 
Microsoft Photos , which does not currently contain all of Photo Gallery's functionality.
Features
- Facial Recognition
- Batch Rename Files
- Sorting by folder
- Retouch photos
- Photo Import
- Image Annotations
- Photo Gallery
- Slideshow Maker
- Compatible people tagging
- Batch processing
- File Organizer
- Tag based
Tags
- image-organizer
- Panorama
- windows-live
- image-adjustment
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What is Windows Live Photo Gallery?
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo management and sharing application released as a part of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which is a part of Windows Vista. The application is available for download bundled with Windows Movie Maker via the Windows Live Essentials suite (you can't separate install from Movie Maker).
Windows Live Photo Gallery information
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Microsoft Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
Comments and Reviews
I still use this on Windows 10. After investing the time to identify people in photos ~20,000 I am not about to change without a migration path.
You can still install and the install software is on the Wayback Machine.
Face data is in the files as metadata but getting it into other software seems impossible without writing code.
This is kind of nice because it'll use native file structure for organization, and it keeps just about everything in the metadata of the image which makes it sync-able to my laptop.
Ughh.. I did really like Window Live Photo Gallery until the new Beta came out.. I can't stand it now and may actually switch back to Picasa. Fundamentally, two items make the tool completely unusable to me:
For dates, you have to turn the option on. It took me a while to figure that out. There is now a close button in the upper right on the ribbon to get back to the album view.
I've tried so far: Picasa, ACDSee, Lightroom and for my needs it takes them all. It is easy to use, integrates with all kinds of online services (using flickr with Picasa was really annoying) and supports tagging.
I like.