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re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:09 pm Posted by LB (81 messages posted) not sure exactly what your trying to do but if you right click on a picture like let's say for example in my documents and choose properties, then a dialog box comes up that says "opens with" and there is a button box where you can "change" what those type of files open with, if you click on change you can change it to another program. Like paint, picture it express, or something. I'm not sure on the history thing your speaking of, mine doesn't seem to be doing that. LB On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 1:53 pm, dave jamison wrote: >I have a related question about How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer >as my default image viewer. What I want to do is figure out how to empty the old >pictures that XP is caching somewhere. Whenever I open up a new picture using Win >Fax & Pic viewer, every old picture is still available by clicking the forwrd and >backward arrows. I can't find anything on the MS web site on clearing this history. >Thanks > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:15 pm Posted by LB (81 messages posted) How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer? Intended For Windows XP only Once again, Microsoft isn't following their own rules. The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is set as the default image viewer for all sorts of file types in Windows XP. Unfortunately, choosing a new program as the default in the File Types window won't change this, and there's no option in the Windows interface that can disable this component. It's a really stupid design, and it takes a Registry change to fix it: Solution #1: Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SystemFileAssociations\ image\ ShellEx\ ContextMenuHandlers. Delete the ShellImagePreview key. Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately. Solution #2: Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}\ shellex. Delete the MayChangeDefaultMenu key. Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately. LB On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 1:53 pm, dave jamison wrote: >I have a related question about How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer >as my default image viewer. What I want to do is figure out how to empty the old >pictures that XP is caching somewhere. Whenever I open up a new picture using Win >Fax & Pic viewer, every old picture is still available by clicking the forwrd and >backward arrows. I can't find anything on the MS web site on clearing this history. >Thanks > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 6:59 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Interesting response. I changed the default viewer on all of my computers without all that hassle. It may be that MS has sent out an update to change that, otherwise it should be simple to accomplish. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 7:19 am Posted by LB (81 messages posted) no that post was from this annoyances site...how to turn it off in the registry LB On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 6:59 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Interesting response. I changed the default viewer on all of my computers without >all that hassle. It may be that MS has sent out an update to change that, otherwise >it should be simple to accomplish. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Monday, January 12, 2004 at 2:51 pm Posted by James (1 messages posted) To disable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, you can unregister shimgvw.dll. This can be done by opening a MS-DOS command prompt and typing this into it: regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll . Set a restore point first.... To find any lost pictures do a wildcard search,(including hidden folders, and searching the whole computer) ie *jpg or *bmp or *png etc. Once rounded up, why not specify a default folder where uploads from your camera etc. are to be put. On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:15 pm, lb wrote: >How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer? > >Intended For >Windows XP only > >Once again, Microsoft isn't following their own rules. The Windows Picture and Fax >Viewer is set as the default image viewer for all sorts of file types in Windows >XP. Unfortunately, choosing a new program as the default in the File Types window >won't change this, and there's no option in the Windows interface that can disable >this component. It's a really stupid design, and it takes a Registry change to fix >it: >Solution #1: > >Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). >Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SystemFileAssociations\ image\ ShellEx\ ContextMenuHandlers. >Delete the ShellImagePreview key. >Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately. >Solution #2: > >Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). >Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}\ shellex. >Delete the MayChangeDefaultMenu key. >Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately. > > > >LB > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Sunday, February 8, 2004 at 5:37 pm Posted by PJ (5 messages posted) While this will disable it, it doesn't mean you can assign files (like BMP) to something else - now NOTHING happens when you double click on a file... because unregistering this bit is really just a hack. I hate the morons at Microsoft! On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 2:51 pm, James wrote: >To disable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, you can unregister shimgvw.dll. This >can be done by opening a MS-DOS command prompt and typing this into it: >regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll . > Set a restore point first.... > >To find any lost pictures do a wildcard search,(including hidden folders, and searching >the whole computer) ie *jpg or *bmp or *png etc. Once rounded up, why not specify >a default folder where uploads from your camera etc. are to be put. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Saturday, March 27, 2004 at 2:55 pm Posted by IHS (1 messages posted) I had this problem and what I had to do was right click on each picture (when it is being viewed in "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer") and then click "delete". This will remove the picture and place it in your recycle bin. On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 1:53 pm, dave jamison wrote: >I have a related question about How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer >as my default image viewer. What I want to do is figure out how to empty the old >pictures that XP is caching somewhere. Whenever I open up a new picture using Win >Fax & Pic viewer, every old picture is still available by clicking the forwrd and >backward arrows. I can't find anything on the MS web site on clearing this history. >Thanks > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 4:45 pm Posted by kwaide (2 messages posted) To begin with: Solution 1 is Not in my Registery, Solution 2 Did Not work, When I done a search for the value {e84 ___6066}. Found IT in HKEY_Local_machine\software\M$\Win$\ CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved Now should I delete it here, TOO ???????? Or is the unregistering the dll doing this? in this area? I would like to know more about Where M$ keeps the files, that it sees in this useless annoying software. email me direct for better communications PLEASE, Thank You................... To disable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, you can unregister shimgvw.dll. This can be done by opening a MS-DOS command prompt and typing this into it: regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll . Set a restore point first.... To find any lost pictures do a wildcard search,(including hidden folders, and searching the whole computer) ie *jpg or *bmp or *png etc. Once rounded up, why not specify a default folder where uploads from your camera etc. are to be put. On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:15 pm, lb wrote: >How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer? > >Intended For >Windows XP only > >Once again, Microsoft isn't following their own rules. The Windows Picture and Fax >Viewer is set as the default image viewer for all sorts of file types in Windows >XP. Unfortunately, choosing a new program as the default in the File Types window >won't change this, and there's no option in the Windows interface that can disable >this component. It's a really stupid design, and it takes a Registry change to fix >it: >Solution #1: > >Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). >Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SystemFileAssociations\ image\ ShellEx\ ContextMenuHandlers. >Delete the ShellImagePreview key. >Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately. >Solution #2: > >Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). >Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}\ shellex. >Delete the MayChangeDefaultMenu key. >Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change will take effect immediately. > > > >LB > > On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 2:51 pm, James wrote: >To disable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, you can unregister shimgvw.dll. This >can be done by opening a MS-DOS command prompt and typing this into it: >regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll . > Set a restore point first.... > >To find any lost pictures do a wildcard search,(including hidden folders, and searching >the whole computer) ie *jpg or *bmp or *png etc. Once rounded up, why not specify >a default folder where uploads from your camera etc. are to be put. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 8:35 am Posted by Ghostie (2 messages posted) 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). On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 1:53 pm, dave jamison wrote: >I have a related question about How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer >as my default image viewer. What I want to do is figure out how to empty the old >pictures that XP is caching somewhere. Whenever I open up a new picture using Win >Fax & Pic viewer, every old picture is still available by clicking the forwrd and >backward arrows. I can't find anything on the MS web site on clearing this history. >Thanks > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] 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 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). > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I turn off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as my default image viewer?' Monday, January 18, 2010 at 4:45 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8785 messages posted) i think you may have the wrong thread On Monday, January 18, 2010 at 3:58 pm, Laura Pawlowska wrote: >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! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum