When I try to open up a picture I get a message: "Windows cannot find ACDSEE.EXE This program is needed for opening files of type ACDsee JPG Image. Location of ACDSEE.EXE C: _____". What do I do to make it like before I had ACDsee? Acdsee ruined my computer and obviously it did not really "uninstall" !!!!

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|When I try to open up a picture I get a message:
|"Windows cannot find ACDSEE.EXE
|This program is needed for opening files of type ACDsee JPG Image..."
| Ksenija

"File Associations"
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1117896636

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1065538214

cache of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1046692303
++shift.right-click++open.with++always.use

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1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Find a .jpg file
3. Hold down shift key and right-click on the filename
4. Choose "Open With"
5. Pick a program that will read JPGs
6. Check the part where it says to always open with that program.

Lyle








On Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 9:44 am, Ksenija wrote:

>When I try to open up a picture I get a message:   "Windows cannot find ACDSEE.EXE

>This program is needed for opening files of type ACDsee JPG Image.  Location of 
ACDSEE.EXE 

>  C: _____".

>

>What do I do to make it like before I had ACDsee? Acdsee ruined my computer and 
obviously 

>it did not really "uninstall" !!!! 

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In addition to the above comments you should finish uninstalling ACDSEE. It lingers in your system and any other bits of junk in the registry by downloading:

• RegSeeker by Hoverdesk

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And another way to fix your picture viewing is to download:

• Irfanview

Irfanview has an easy screen in its options to assign it to any picture formats. It's a check off list and if you change your mind at any time later, Irfanview remembers the old association and puts things back the way they were.


On Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 11:41 am, dhm wrote:
>
>In addition to the above comments you should finish uninstalling ACDSEE. It lingers
>in your system and any other bits of junk in the registry by downloading:
>

>
• RegSeeker by Hoverdesk
  >

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You will have to edit your registry to get it like it was before you used ACDSEE as it uses non-standard methods to capture file associations and when it is uninstalled it won't remove the offending items which causes the breakage.

When you use the "Open With" applet to create file associations on the fly as it were, you enter into the registry a uniquely marked "chain" that results in the working file association. ACDSEE does the same thing but uses their own "marker" which is breaking the standard chain for some unknown reason. Consider the following chain for log files which normally are not associated for any application.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.log]
@="log_auto_file"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file]
@="LOG File"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file\shell\open]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\NOTEPAD.EXE \"%1\""

The unique Microsoft Windows "marker" for "Open With" assigned file association chains is "_auto_file" which has been added onto "log" in order to create the "log_auto_file" key "chain". ACDSEE should be using something else, but if they do use the same thing then no wonder it's broke and MS can't get around it?

You need to start at
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg]
and follow ACDSEE's chain to see where it all goes and then ultimately come back and insert what MS had there to begin with or create your own file associations the correct way. Which is way not fun at all.

It is rumored that irfanview can "fix" these broken file associations of ACDSEE, however. Perhaps it's the quickest and easiest fix?

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