peterapas

Know this pain - honestly the tendency of Windows family OS' to accumulate errors in time forced me some time ago to switch for Linux, which is my main OS now for most of the jobs - this system after installation and some tweaks can work smoothly for years. I still keep one Win10 laptop with Lightroom and Photoshop CC running, because I have to use some specific plugins for some of my jobs and I cannot re-create them in my Linux environment (this is for high advanced technical photographs for my main customer and as long as they paying - I am happy to keep my Windows alive :-)). Answering you question - I am not sure if I still have any Win 7 installation disk, if I can find one - then I can extract these files for you. But quick check in my software collection I recently done return negative result so far... I am afraid that during last desk cleaning I may put it to recycling bin...

Hi nekto, If jpgs are opened by some applications there is good news: files are not damaged in fact, and problem laying in operating system itself. It is hard to say what is exact reason for all this without access to the machine, but I'll rather be suspicious in terms of system upgrades before AD was installed. A *.dll file is Dynamic Linking Library, linked to actual code if needed to do specific task (in very simple words), and this linking process may be affected by some system errors. I had similar issue a good few years ago with Windows Vista and only working solution was format the system drive and clean re-installation of the system. And no, there was no virus or other nasty stuff in the machine - just old and well known ability of the Windows family OS' to accumulate errors in vast space of system registers. To be honest - since that happen, a yearly refreshing of the Windows became my natural habit, and I thing that MS is aware about the problem because we can see more and more advanced 'refreshment' tools in Windows since Vista. Probably there is some way to fix the problem without system being reinstalled, like *.dll files replacement for the new ones extracted from installation disk, registry scan etc, but as Linux, OSX and Windows user I have experience that sometimes setting things up as new is the best way in case of MS operating system... You'll lost few hours, obviously, but maybe this is the best way...

There is two way of working with vector graphic and bitmaps. Mixing them together in one app seems not very good idea - some actions, even if named very same, works differently in the word of vectors and reality of bitmaps. I'll be happy to work with two separate applications with ability for work over different elements of the same project. For example if bitmap is used as a background for graphic design, double click on it should open a file in bitmap editor and all the changes made should be visible in vector graph project after editing is finished.

Hi all, my name is Peter and my job is mainly photography and cinematography. I used some Seriff video software in past as not demanding but good enough platform for simple in situ editing and I am very happy to see and check new Affinity products for Windows. For my day job I am using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, in past had some experience with Corel Draw and Illustrator in terms of vector graphic. I am also a huge fan of Linux and currently do all my video workflow using Lightworks for Linux as an editing tool, and Audacity and Reaper for sound.