re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Friday, February 22, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bill
(1 messages posted)
Barry,
I needed to change the default program used to open, preview, edit, print TIF files.
I tried many of these suggested Registry entry changes and they simply do not work
in Windows XP Pro!
However ,I found that the following steps actually did the trick without all of the
potentially risky changes to the Registry…
Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Folder Options/File Types. Click on any image
extension type that you want to change (.tif, .jpg, .gif, etc.) Click the Advanced
button - New button - inside the Action box type "preview" (without quotes) – Select
the Browse button and select the Program Application that you want to use for the
preview function. You can do this for other actions that you might want to do with
the file type, such as "open," “edit,”,“print,” etc. if you don’t like the default
program that the system has currently assigned to that action. If you change your
mind and want to get it back, simply remove the above actions you have made. If
there is already an action shown in the box, you can choose the Edit button and make
the change to the program used via the Browse button as above. Hope this helps?
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On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 3:19 pm, barry wrote:
>I tried everything and it still opens the BS windows viewer. Anybody else got a
guess
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