re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Monday, April 14, 2003 at 9:21 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Laurie (82 messages posted) I tried the two registry fixes too. The one that Deletes the MayChangeDefaultMenu key didn't work but the ShellImagePreview deletion did. However if you found that both didn't work you might like to try this trick. I don't know how safe it is, or whether it writes billions of things in the registry but I did find it worked on someone's XP last year. Go to START Run. Type in regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll This is supposed to "disable" the File and Fax viewer. Because the Windows Image and fax Viewer steals associations from other image viewers despite your own settings I think this disablement is the best way. Though granted many people say delete the ShellEx Context Menuhandlers key (not the folder! make sure you delete the key value in the right hand side box) in the HKCR\SysteFileAssociations\image\ShellEx path of the registry. Maybe you've cured this rotten glitch since March but in case not, I hope that was helpful. -- Laurie On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 7:56 pm, Bob Cerelli wrote: >If the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is set as the default for many of your graphic >file types, >you can remove it so other graphics programs can be used. > >Run Regedit >Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT / SystemFileAssociations / image / ShellEx / ContextMenuHandlers >Rename or Delete the key ShellImagePreview > >Bob Cerelli > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Bob Cerelli: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 7:56 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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