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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:01 am
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Posted by alex (1992 messages posted)


I registered BMP with Paint,JPG and GIF with an Irfanview32 that's all.
These are the common formats I work with and use.The rest Shimgvw can keep.






On Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 5:12 am, Ray Lea wrote:

>By default, Windows XP opens all picture files (gif,jpg,...) with the 

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>included Windows Picture and Fax Viewer no matter what other picture 

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>viewers you have installed. To disable the Windows Picture and Fax 

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>Viewer, unregister shimgvw.dll. This can be done from command prompt:

>regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll

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>(Additional note: unregistering shimgvw.dll will also disable thumbnail 

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>view in Explorer and may cause problems changing user account and 

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>desktop background pictures. To reenable Picture and Fax viewer again 

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>type:  regsvr32 shimgvw.dll.  DON'T FORGET TO REBOOT

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Written in response to:: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Ray Lea: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 5:12 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (werner: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 11:57 am)

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Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Ray Lea: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 5:12 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (alex: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 6:01 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (werner: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 11:57 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (alex: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 11:38 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (werner: Mon, Jul 2, 2007, 3:15 am)

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