re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? Friday, January 27, 2006 at 6:19 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by James Nairn (1 messages posted) Fix is three stages First, to restore Preview capability to Windows Explorer: Create a .reg file in notepad with the following contents: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" Note: Repeat ShellEx pair for each root class (image extension) you want to repair Save the file as ShellEx.reg or something similar. Double click on it to update your registry. Step two, to repair the Windows Picture and FaxViewer launch (default double-click action). Enter at the Command/Run prompt: regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll Finally, if you have changed default applications to offset the loss of FaxViewer, you will need to set the default OPEN action back to Windows Picture and FaxViewer (see earlier posts in this thread). The Ctrl E function of WPFV will follow the EDIT action associated with that file extension. It appears this functionality was disabled by an MS Patch application, though I have yet to read which one it was. On Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 4:56 pm, Nicki wrote: > >I have been searching everywhere for help and this is getting very close! I think >I have the same problem as below. It's not that picture and fax viewer isn't there, >and it is my default (I have done all the above steps and everything seems to be >as it should). It's just not working. The thumbnails are not showing the picture >(just the standard icon thingy) and double clicking on them just does nothing. Clicking >on 'show as a filmstrip' also does nothing, everything just sits there. Also right >clicking and trying 'preview' does nothing. The video files do have a picture and >they do play when I double click them. >Any help with this would be really appreciated! >Thanks in advance! >Nik > > Written in response to: re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Nicki: Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 4:56 pm) Responses to this message: re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (StevenF: Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 8:12 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (jai: Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 9:50 am) re: This fix works! (Kinnear Penman: Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 12:51 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Kaps: Friday, April 28, 2006 at 11:19 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Jay: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 10:02 am) re: Thanks (iiianydayiii: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 2:15 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Jarvis: Sunday, July 9, 2006 at 12:35 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (nicky: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 11:21 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (LALIT: Friday, June 22, 2007 at 10:55 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Gary Collins: Friday, July 27, 2007 at 10:33 am) All messages in this thread [show all] How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Jessica: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 4:05 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Bob Cerelli: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 5:47 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Kersef: Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 8:26 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (John: Sun, Oct 5, 2003, 1:49 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? 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(gal: Tue, Aug 3, 2004, 10:23 am) How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On and how do i view my picture with preview (Austin: Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 5:56 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Richard: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 10:48 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (ed: Mon, May 8, 2006, 6:13 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (fred vansamang: Wed, Dec 1, 2004, 6:25 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (fred: Sat, Dec 4, 2004, 7:19 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (rob b: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 8:12 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (jk: Wed, Dec 7, 2005, 4:32 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Chuck C: Sat, Dec 17, 2005, 4:51 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (l3ft3r1s: Sun, Jan 22, 2006, 12:03 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Chuck C: Sat, Jan 28, 2006, 8:52 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Stitch: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 5:35 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (l3ft3r1s: Sun, Jun 11, 2006, 9:16 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (James: Wed, Jan 25, 2006, 5:42 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Howard: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 5:37 pm) that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Daniel: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 8:52 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Miles: Tue, Dec 16, 2003, 12:59 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Keith: Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 5:17 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (michael: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 11:24 am) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. 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