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Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?'
Monday, October 7, 2002 at 1:51 pm
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Posted by John (1 messages posted)

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?

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (Jim Swearingen: Monday, October 7, 2002 at 3:04 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (ksh: Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 7:42 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (tweak: Friday, March 16, 2007 at 7:52 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' (barry: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 10:08 am)

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)

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