re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Friday, March 16, 2007 at 7:52 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by tweak (1 messages posted) Easist way to disable Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Posted 8/12/2002 by TweakXP Member Right Click On image file. Choose "open with", then "choose program" Select your favorite image viewer program. Check the "always use selected program" box Click OK. It's just that simple. On Monday, October 7, 2002 at 1:51 pm, John wrote: >Once upon a time I found a way to change the default action for images to "Open" >instead of "Preview" without actually disabling the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. > This allowed me to open image files in the editor of my choice by simply clicking >on them, while still letting me preview them in the built-in viewer from the context >menu. > >Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of what I did, and now SP1 has very kindly "fixed" >this for me. (Gee, thanks, Bill!) Does anyone know how to do this? 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?' (barry: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 3:19 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