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 Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by alex (2811 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 > >included Windows Picture and Fax Viewer no matter what other picture > >viewers you have installed. To disable the Windows Picture and Fax > >Viewer, unregister shimgvw.dll. This can be done from command prompt: >regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll > >(Additional note: unregistering shimgvw.dll will also disable thumbnail > >view in Explorer and may cause problems changing user account and > >desktop background pictures. To reenable Picture and Fax viewer again > >type: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll. DON'T FORGET TO REBOOT > > 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) Responses to this message: 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) 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?' (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) 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