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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:15 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by LB
(81 messages posted)
How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?
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Windows XP only
Once again, Microsoft isn't following their own rules. The Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer is set as the default image viewer for all sorts of file types in Windows
XP. Unfortunately, choosing a new program as the default in the File Types window
won't change this, and there's no option in the Windows interface that can disable
this component. It's a really stupid design, and it takes a Registry change to fix
it:
Solution #1:
Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SystemFileAssociations\ image\ ShellEx\ ContextMenuHandlers.
Delete the ShellImagePreview key.
Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately.
Solution #2:
Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}\ shellex.
Delete the MayChangeDefaultMenu key.
Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately.
LB
On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 1:53 pm, dave jamison wrote:
>I have a related question about How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
>as my default image viewer. What I want to do is figure out how to empty the old
>pictures that XP is caching somewhere. Whenever I open up a new picture using Win
>Fax & Pic viewer, every old picture is still available by clicking the forwrd and
>backward arrows. I can't find anything on the MS web site on clearing this history.
>Thanks
>
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