re: Image Files opening in Excel
Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(990 messages posted)
I'm going to assume that nothing has changed the extension.
Try this:
- Find such a .JPG in a folder.
- Shift+Right click on it.
- Select Open with..
- Change the association from Excel to whatever you use to show images.
Or go here:
And install Irfanview 3.97. (Version 3.99 will not install in Win98 or Win2K).
Irfanview has an user friendly (and reversible!) system for associating graphics
extensions with itself. It is a near universal graphics viewer and does all the
most common crops and corrections.
It can even handle extension problems. I knew it could handle GIFs and JPGs that
have been given the wrong exension so I just tested it (ver 3.98, however). I deleted
the ".jpg" from the name of a file. I started Irfanview and told it to open the
file anyway. It recognized that it was actually a JPEG and asked if I wanted the
name corrected, then it displayed it.
On Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:33 pm, curator wrote:
>I am running Windows 98SE and for some reason my image files (JPEGs and TIFFs) are
>bveing poened as Excel files, which, of course, renders them unreadable. I have
no
>idea why it is defaulting to this, nor how to fix it.
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- Image Files opening in Excel (curator: Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:33 pm)
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