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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Monday, January 12, 2004 at 2:51 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James
(1 messages posted)
To disable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, you can unregister shimgvw.dll. This
can be done by opening a MS-DOS command prompt and typing this into it:
regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll .
Set a restore point first....
To find any lost pictures do a wildcard search,(including hidden folders, and searching
the whole computer) ie *jpg or *bmp or *png etc. Once rounded up, why not specify
a default folder where uploads from your camera etc. are to be put.
On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:15 pm, lb wrote:
>How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?
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>Intended For
>Windows XP only
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>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:
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>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:
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>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.
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>LB
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