re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 7:42 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ksh (1 messages posted) Disable Image Preview (Windows XP) When you open an image file in Windows XP the default action is to "Preview" it using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. This tweak can be used to disable the Preview image option. Open your registry and find the key below. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview] Set the value of "(Default)" to blank to disable the default preview option. Set the Value to "{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}" to restore the action. The change should take effect immediately. This will only remove the preview as default action if the image format is associated with another application. Filetypes still associated with the windows "Picture and Fax Viewer" application will still show the preview option as default action. All it took was some googling ;) --ksh-- Written in response to: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (John: Monday, October 7, 2002 at 1:51 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (ste3ve: Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 4:35 pm) 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?' (John: Mon, Oct 7, 2002, 1:51 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Jim Swearingen: Mon, Oct 7, 2002, 3:04 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (timmy ramone: Thu, Jun 23, 2005, 6:03 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (ksh: Sun, Aug 8, 2004, 7:42 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (ste3ve: Thu, Apr 14, 2005, 4:35 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (tweak: Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 7:52 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (barry: Tue, Jan 29, 2008, 3:19 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Bill: Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 9:43 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (barry: Thu, Jan 31, 2008, 10:08 am) 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