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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 5:37 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by PJ
(5 messages posted)
While this will disable it, it doesn't mean you can assign files (like BMP) to something
else - now NOTHING happens when you double click on a file... because unregistering
this bit is really just a hack.
I hate the morons at Microsoft!
On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 2:51 pm, James wrote:
>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....
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>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.
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