re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 9:48 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Laymon (2 messages posted) By default XP uses Windows Picture and Fax Viewer to preview pictures. It takes a while to get used to it; however, once you do, it’s hard to go back. Several programs when installed try to take over the role of picture preview. This is very difficult to reverse. Here’s how you do it. 1. Click Start 2. Click Run 3. In the textbox type: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll 4. Click OK You may or may not have to reboot to see your chang On Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7:03 pm, Kim wrote: > >sorry, this doesn't work. I deleted both entries in the registry and the picture >and fax viewer still opens all .gifs. >Thanks anyway though. > > Written in response to: re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Kim: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7:03 pm) Responses to this message: re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Laymon: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 9:55 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Jessica: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 4:05 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Bob Cerelli: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 5:47 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Kersef: Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 8:26 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (John: Sun, Oct 5, 2003, 1:49 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Matt: Fri, Apr 16, 2004, 12:05 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Jim Atwood: Sun, Jan 22, 2006, 2:28 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Nicki: Thu, Jan 26, 2006, 4:56 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? 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(James: Wed, Jan 25, 2006, 5:42 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Howard: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 5:37 pm) that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Daniel: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 8:52 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Miles: Tue, Dec 16, 2003, 12:59 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Keith: Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 5:17 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (michael: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 11:24 am) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Yakov: Mon, Sep 10, 2007, 8:47 pm) re: that fixes my problem with jpg images loading in view32 instead of W.P.&F.V. (Joe Bowman: Wed, Sep 12, 2007, 8:18 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (RichardH: Thu, Jan 12, 2006, 6:51 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? 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