I've relied on MS Photo Editor for ages - it came as part of MS Office XP as well as earlier versions of Office.
I've moved on to Win 8.1, and am now running Office 13. I went back to my old XP system with Office XP. PhotoEd is in
D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PhotoEd. I copied the whole directory. and placed it on the new Win 8 system into C:\Programs. It does not have to be installed with Office. You do not need the CD. All you need is access to a system with Office & PhotoEd on it, and a thumb drive to copy the folder to. The /Photoed folder has these files in it:
PHOTOED.EXE CHALKCHA.DLL EMBOSS.DLL
GRAPHICP.DLL NOTEPAPE.DLL STAINEDG.DLL
STAMP.DLL TEXTURIZ.DLL WATERCOL.DLL
PHOTOED.CNT PHOTOED.HLP /1033/PEINTL.DLL
I also added it to the SendTo right click menu so I can easily open images with it.
to do this, go to Run and enter shell:sendto, which opens C:\Users\UserAccount\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo. Place a shortcut in there to PHOTOED.EXE, and call it PhotoEditor.
Note: I made the C:/Programs directory to keep programs that do not have to be installed. This incldes Notepad++, RIOT, SIW, TeamViewer and others. You can place the directory anywhere.
PhotoEd works just as it did in the old system.
