re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 9:14 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mcw (2 messages posted) Whoops! I've solved it; tried the regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll click ok, and did it by copying and pasting the above, and it 'took'. Wow. Thanks to whoever put that up. On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 9:06 am, mcw wrote: >Adam, I've checked under tools/files/and all my graphics files are properly distributed >to my preferred files but windows pictureviewer opens them anyway; I've also tried >the registry suggestions and I get a "couldn't find" message. Having tried both >these suggestions, I'm REALLY getting a bit distressed. This is the most annoying >of the xp annoyances yet found. I got this computer 3 days ago and have been working >on it steadily to try to make it a useful tool with xp running; I bought it for the >HT ability with images especially, and I can't even open an image in (any of) my >graphics programs. I'm working on a graphic I have on my desktop -- a screenshot >of my old computer's desktop, so I can get all the programs I want on the desktop >-- and even though the icon is an ACDSee icon, it opens in the darned windows viewer!!!!!!!! > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (mcw: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 9:06 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Steve Pieckiel: Friday, June 10, 2005 at 9:05 am) 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?' (Bill Wilson: Sun, Feb 24, 2002, 12:35 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Bill Wilson: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 11:46 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Holly: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 1:21 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (paul: Mon, Jul 1, 2002, 2:27 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (dennis: Thu, May 15, 2003, 9:55 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Wed, Apr 17, 2002, 7:13 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Bill Wilson: Wed, Apr 17, 2002, 8:10 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (dennis: Thu, May 15, 2003, 10:05 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (mcw: Wed, Dec 3, 2003, 9:06 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (mcw: Wed, Dec 3, 2003, 9:14 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Steve Pieckiel: Fri, Jun 10, 2005, 9:05 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