re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? Sunday, January 11, 2004 at 10:42 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mark (1 messages posted) I looked and double checked but don't have a SystemFileAssociations. I am running XP all my entries in that area start "System." and after the period there are numerous items. None however are file associations.... Any ideas? Mark On Sunday, April 7, 2002 at 8:39 pm, dc wrote: >Run regedit > >Change the key >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command > >to be the photoeditor you prefer. For example, I changed mine from > "%systemroot%\system32\mspaint.exe" "%1" >to >"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PhotoEd\Photoed.exe" "%1" > >close regedit. > >It just works. > > > >s Written in response to: re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? (dc: Sunday, April 7, 2002 at 8:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? (Liria: Monday, May 24, 2004 at 8:40 am) All messages in this thread [show all] How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? (Don Stein: Sun, Mar 3, 2002, 2:10 pm) re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? (xpadvisor: Sun, Mar 3, 2002, 4:54 pm) re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? (dc: Sun, Apr 7, 2002, 7:53 pm) re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? (Susan Fields: Thu, Sep 23, 2004, 11:21 am) how to default my windows picture and fax viewer (karina mae: Tue, Apr 18, 2006, 11:00 pm) re: How to change mspaint as the editing program in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? 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