re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 8:01 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Casey (571 messages posted) Or you can turn it off altogether , from the run command enter this : regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll and then hit enter , it should give a confirmation message , to turn it back on just don't use the /u switch : regsvr32 shimgvw.dll . Case On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 7:13 pm, Paul wrote: >I have a question about How >do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?: > >I tried the obvious (Tools->Folder Options, File Types, change the associations), >and then the unobvious (the two registry changes in the article), and nothing keeps >Windows Picture and Fax Viewer from being the default viewer for jpg and gif instead >of Image Eye. I even looked in the Image Eye help file - it give the same two registry >changes that didn't work. > >Anyone have any other ideas? > >Thanks, >Paul Written in response to: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Paul: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 7:13 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 9:36 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Paul: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 7:13 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Bob Cerelli: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 7:56 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Paul: Thu, Mar 27, 2003, 2:48 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Laurie: Mon, Apr 14, 2003, 9:21 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (James King: Mon, Sep 8, 2003, 5:31 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Casey: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 8:01 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 9:36 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Paul: Thu, Mar 27, 2003, 3:28 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Chris Wilks: Tue, Jun 24, 2003, 4:32 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Wedge: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 4:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum