Windows won't automatically rotate using exif orientation. Help!

[Shinji]

I have a Canon A510. Windows used to automatically (and losslessly i believe) rotate the images according to the exif orientation data. It won't do that anymore.

The photos are rotated correctly on my camera LCD, then when I put the SD card into my laptop they no longer are rotated. If I load it up in photoshop or another program that uses exif data (like Picasa) it is rotated correctly.

Now here is the kicker: I have a Gallery2 website and it IS NOT automatically rotating images like it used to. So weird huh?

Using an exif reader I can tell that the exif data is correctly being written.

Any idea what went wrong or what changed?

 

[Shinji]

Ok, update. If I use Gallery Remote it will automatically rotate for me. So my problem is basically solved because Gallery Remote is frickin sweet, but I still just wish it never messed up in the first place.

 

[moosenuts]

Just a thought - see if windows auto rotates your images if you transfer them from the camera instead of a card reader.

 

[Shinji]

Just a thought - see if windows auto rotates your images if you transfer them from the camera instead of a card reader.

Ya, I meant to try that. The reason I don't want to do that however is because my card reader is actually built into my laptop, so its super convenient, and my camera is USB 1.1 so it is pretty slow to connect directly.