re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 9:55 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 Written in response to: re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Laymon: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 9:48 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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? 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(nicky: Wed, Jul 26, 2006, 11:21 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (LALIT: Fri, Jun 22, 2007, 10:55 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Gary Collins: Fri, Jul 27, 2007, 10:33 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (gal: Tue, Aug 3, 2004, 10:23 am) How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On and how do i view my picture with preview (Austin: Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 5:56 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Richard: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 10:48 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (ed: Mon, May 8, 2006, 6:13 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (fred vansamang: Wed, Dec 1, 2004, 6:25 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (fred: Sat, Dec 4, 2004, 7:19 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (rob b: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 8:12 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (jk: Wed, Dec 7, 2005, 4:32 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Chuck C: Sat, Dec 17, 2005, 4:51 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (l3ft3r1s: Sun, Jan 22, 2006, 12:03 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Chuck C: Sat, Jan 28, 2006, 8:52 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (Stitch: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 5:35 am) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (l3ft3r1s: Sun, Jun 11, 2006, 9:16 pm) re: How Do I Turn Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Back On? (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. 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