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System Requirements

Picasa requires:

  • PC with 300MHz Pentium® processor and MMX® technology.
  • 64 MB RAM (128MB Recommended)
  • 50 MB available hard disk space (100MB recommended)
  • 800 × 600 pixels, 16 bit colour monitor.
  • Microsoft® Windows 2000, or Microsoft® Windows XP.*
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01 or better (6.0 recommended). If at any time you get an “unable to authenticate” error, you should upgrade to IE 6.0.
  • Microsoft® DirectX 7.0 or higher (8.1 ships with XP, 9.0b recommended).
  • Optional: 56K Internet connection speed or better (for access to any online services).

Related information about Picasa:

File types supported include:

Images: jpg, bmp, gif, png, psd, tif
Movies: avi, mpg, wmv, asf, mov (QuickTime)
RAW data files, including cameras from Canon, Nikon, Kodak, Minolta and Pentax.

Currently available in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English (US and UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Learn how Picasa works with other browsers.

Picasa makes use of the following software libraries: IJG, zlib, and libtiff


* Note: Microsoft® Windows ME, Microsoft® Windows 98 and earlier versions of the Windows operating system are not compatible with the download on this website.

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