re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 10:08 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by barry (2 messages posted) None of your methods worked. This did. Hkey_classes_root....tifimage.document.....shell....open...droptarget...clsid (delete value).. go to folder options....file options.....tif (hit restore button) tif will now open in the programs you have chosen. 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) 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