Right-click on the image file, highlight Open With, and select Choose Program from the bottom of the context menu. Highlight your preferred viewing program and check the box for Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.

JSS3rd@earthlink.net

Once upon a time I found a way to change the default action for images to "Open" instead of "Preview" without actually disabling the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. This allowed me to open image files in the editor of my choice by simply clicking on them, while still letting me preview them in the built-in viewer from the context menu.

Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of what I did, and now SP1 has very kindly "fixed" this for me. (Gee, thanks, Bill!) Does anyone know how to do this?

Written in response to: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (John: Monday, October 7, 2002 at 1:51 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (timmy ramone: Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 6:03 am)

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