re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Monday, January 18, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Laura Pawlowska
(1 messages posted)
Very simply.....
control panel...internet options...delete...untick box at the top about preserving
cookies from favourite websites! All gone!! Only took me about 8 hours to figure
that out! Hope that helps!
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 8:35 am, Ghostie wrote:
>The correct solution to this is as follows:
>
>Under each extension in HKCR (CLASSES_ROOT), for example - .bmp, the (Default) setting
>will point to a MimeType. Search for that MimeType under HKCR (e.g. .bmp's (Default)
>is "HKCR\Paint.Picture"). Look under that key's "shell\open" entry for a "DropTarget".
> From what I understand from MSDN, DropTarget is new as of Windows 2000, but was
>abused by XP. There should be a "Clsid" entry with the value of "{E84FDA7C-1D6A-45F6-B725-CB260C236066}"
>in there. The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is actually a COM Server and is what
>is pointed to by the DropTarget verb. Unregistering this (and any other COM Server)
>without understanding what happens is the worst thing you can do to the shell and
>your OS (namely leaving around dangling registry entries that slow down the entire
>OS). Instead, manually rename either the "Clsid" key or the "DropTarget" key to
>something like "Clsid_2" or "DropTarget_2" to fix the problem. The shell apparently
>looks at the "DropTarget" verb before the "command" verb. You haven't lost data
>and can revert if you don't like the change (assuming you can remember how the registry
>is organized between now and then).
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