re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 4:35 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ste3ve (1 messages posted) Hm, my default action is "Open." I checked this reg key and the correct value is there. When I blank the value, the "Preview" option disappears from the context menu. When I replace the value, the "Preview" option reappears but the default is still "Open." Anyone know how to make "Preview" the default? On Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 7:42 pm, ksh wrote: >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: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (ksh: Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 7:42 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?' (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