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.... > >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. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (James: Monday, January 12, 2004 at 2:51 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (dave jamison: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 1:53 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (LB: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 3:09 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (LB: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 3:15 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Tom Swanson: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 6:59 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (LB: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 7:19 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (James: Mon, Jan 12, 2004, 2:51 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, 5:37 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (kwaide: Sat, May 15, 2004, 4:45 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (IHS: Sat, Mar 27, 2004, 2:55 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Ghostie: Wed, Jul 14, 2004, 8:35 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Laura Pawlowska: Mon, Jan 18, 2010, 3:58 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Adam Bradley: Mon, Jan 18, 2010, 4:45 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum