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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Sunday, February 8, 2004 at 5:33 pm
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Posted by PJ (5 messages posted)

Except this doesn't work. Not for BMP anyway, since the "always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is disabled and can't be chosen!

On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 5:06 pm, Adam Bradley wrote:

>This is arguably Windows most annoying so called feature. It is possible to get 
rid 
>of it you must go onto the menu bar of any folder and then to "folder option" and 
>click the "file types" tab and there will be a list of file extensions select the 
>one you want to change click the change button and select the program you want to 
>use, if you do not see the right program listed you will have to click "browse" 
to 
>find it yourself. 
>Here is a list of extension you might want to change:
>.bmp
>.gif
>.jpeg
>Other less common ones include:
>.ani
>.cur
>.dib
>.ico
>.jfif
>.jpg
>
>
>






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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 5:06 pm)


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Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Jean: Tue, Mar 26, 2002, 2:11 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Bob Cerelli: Tue, Mar 26, 2002, 4:44 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Wed, May 1, 2002, 5:06 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (PJ: Sun, Feb 8, 2004, 5:33 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Wed, May 1, 2002, 5:56 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Justin Hall: Tue, May 14, 2002, 8:59 am)

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