I have a question about How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?:

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Contol Panel/Folder Options/File Types/*.Image Click at every image extention you want to change, click advance button - New button - under Action box type "preview" without quote - Browse and refer to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSPaper\MSPVIEW.EXE - click Ok. And if you change your mind and want to get it back, simply remove the above preview action you have made.

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Or you could try the easy way:- Click "Start", click "Run", and type this:- regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dl Then click "OK".

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Or EVEN EASIER.. is like this regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll as it works much better with the .dll instead of .dl ;) Chris


On Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 4:04 am, Dirk Diggler wrote:
>Or you could try the easy way:-
>Click "Start", click "Run", and type this:-
>regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dl
>Then click "OK".

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I wanted to preview my Photoshop images with Photoshop. I followed your instructions and put in photoshop.exe for the "browse" program and it worked great! By the way, mspview.exe doesn't exist on my computer...I did a search of all hard drives... Thanks for the help-you got me on the right track!


On Wednesday, May 8, 2002 at 10:48 pm, Yap wrote:
>Contol Panel/Folder Options/File Types/*.Image
>Click at every image extention you want to change, click advance button - New button
>- under Action box type "preview" without quote - Browse and refer to C:\Program
>Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSPaper\MSPVIEW.EXE - click Ok.
>And if you change your mind and want to get it back, simply remove the above preview
>action you have made.

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I also ran this and it worked. Is there a way to restore the image preview?


On Saturday, August 3, 2002 at 12:51 pm, Chris May wrote:
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>Or EVEN EASIER.. is like this
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>regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll
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>as it works much better with the .dll instead of .dl ;)
>
>Chris
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>

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Edit the XP registry. Hive: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Key: SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview Name: (Default) Type: REG_SZ To enable Preview, set Value: {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066} To disable Preview, set Value: blank


On Wednesday, May 8, 2002 at 3:33 pm, lerxst wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?:

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i tried to re-install my preview option with your info below but it didn't seem to work. does anyone know another way to try to restore the preview option.


On Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 4:15 pm, Mark Mabee wrote:
>Edit the XP registry.
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>Hive: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
>Key: SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview
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>Name: (Default)
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>Type: REG_SZ
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>To enable Preview, set Value: {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}
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>To disable Preview, set Value: blank
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To reverse the 'regsrv32 /u shimgvw.dll' command tip given above do the following:-

Click 'Start'
Choose 'Run...'
Enter the line below:-
       regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll
After a moment you'll get a dialog box telling you if it was successful. 

This re-installs the image viewer so it's back as it was when XP ships.

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