Duplicate Files in Windows Photo Gallery

I am plaqued with duplicates and triplicates of photos appearing in Photo Gallery. I have gone to Options and Import to turn off Autoplay, but whenever I connect my camera or memory chip to a USB port , it starts reading all the files without my input. Worse
it does not pick up duplicates at all, but loads all images again and not just the up-dates, despite what the Microsoft literature says.
I prefer to cut and paste blocks of new images manually into Photo Gallery, but Windows beats me everytime.
Any ideas to stop this duplication and auto entry ?

I tried your command line string, but of course Windows Live was not recognised. However even leaving out "Live" I still get a message saying "Windows cannot find .........Check spelling (which I have.)
So, should this string be modified in other respects for Vista perhaps ?
Hi,
C:\Users\Usename\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Photo Gallery, this is an example, the username should be your own user account, I think the file location for Pictures.pd in Vista should be the same in Windows 7, I suggest you
manually fiind it in your Windows Explorer, not copy the "path" and paste in your system, this will not work.
Another choice, reinstall the Photo Gallery if possible.
And this is the lcoation for Vista Forum
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/home?category=windowsvistaitpro
Yolanda Zhu
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