I am a Photoshop aficionado.  
I would like all common image types (.jpg, .tif, .bmp, etc.) to open in Adobe Photoshop 
when I click on them.  However, in my XP, they default to the “Windows Picture and 
Fax Viewer.”  I have followed all the suggested registry tweaks in this forum to 
no avail.  

In addition, when I try to right-click an image file and go to Properties, and attempt 
to change the “Opens With”, I do NOT EVEN SEE MY PHOTOSHOP IN THE RESULTANT LIST 
OF PROGRAMS, which always defaults to the Picture and Fax Viewer despite my aforementioned 
registry changes.  When I browse to Photoshop and pick its executable, I am returned 
to the program list featuring the Picture and Fax Viewer, and the change is not made. 
 

My questions:
1) where can I find this Picture and Fax Viewer in order to remove it, and 
2) how can I get Photoshop into the list of programs to associate with the desired 
filetypes?

Many thanks,

John McL.

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re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, March 5, 2004 at 5:33 am Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) ""[Start] [Run] type regedit.exe and click [OK] Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/SystemFileAssociations/image/ShellEx /ContextMenuHandlers Delete the Folder ShellImagePreview under ContextMenuHandlers If you change your mind and want to restore the Picture and Fax Viewer Create the ShellImagePreview folder and create the String Value (Default) Assign it the value {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}""... triplate... On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 4:45 am, John wrote: >I am a Photoshop aficionado. >I would like all common image types (.jpg, .tif, .bmp, etc.) to open in Adobe Photoshop >when I click on them. However, in my XP, they default to the “Windows Picture and >Fax Viewer.” I have followed all the suggested registry tweaks in this forum to >no avail. > >In addition, when I try to right-click an image file and go to Properties, and attempt >to change the “Opens With”, I do NOT EVEN SEE MY PHOTOSHOP IN THE RESULTANT LIST >OF PROGRAMS, which always defaults to the Picture and Fax Viewer despite my aforementioned >registry changes. When I browse to Photoshop and pick its executable, I am returned >to the program list featuring the Picture and Fax Viewer, and the change is not made. > > >My questions: >1) where can I find this Picture and Fax Viewer in order to remove it, and >2) how can I get Photoshop into the list of programs to associate with the desired >filetypes? > >Many thanks, > >John McL. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, March 5, 2004 at 5:42 am Posted by John (6 messages posted) Unfortunately, this suggestion was already made and I followed it, to no avail, as I mentioned in my prior post. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer remains chosen in the file association window, and Photoshop does not appear in the list of alternative programs. This is the point of my posting again. John McL. On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 5:33 am, triplate wrote: >""[Start] [Run] type regedit.exe and click [OK] >Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/SystemFileAssociations/image/ShellEx /ContextMenuHandlers >Delete the Folder ShellImagePreview under ContextMenuHandlers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, March 5, 2004 at 8:20 am Posted by MLS (2203 messages posted) probably already tried...but have you attempted to reinstall PS and choose the file associations it presents during install? On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 5:42 am, John wrote: > >Unfortunately, this suggestion was already made and I followed it, to no avail, as >I mentioned in my prior post. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer remains chosen in the >file association window, and Photoshop does not appear in the list of alternative >programs. This is the point of my posting again. > >John McL. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, March 5, 2004 at 8:28 am Posted by John (6 messages posted) O yes, I tried that first thing. Photoshop opens all desired filetypes if I'm IN Photoshop; it's when I'm opening an attachment or just clicking on a common image filetype that I get this damned Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Does anyone know where it lives in the computer? Searches don't find it. Cheers, John On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 8:20 am, MLS wrote: >probably already tried...but have you attempted to reinstall PS and choose the file >associations it presents during install? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, March 5, 2004 at 8:32 am Posted by MLS (2203 messages posted) Unfortunately, it does not reside in an .exe file, but is buried somewhere in one of the many .dll (I think) files. One possibility is to try scf /scannow and see it that replaces what is appears to be a corrupt system file. You will need to have your XP CD at hand when doing this. On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 8:28 am, John wrote: > >O yes, I tried that first thing. Photoshop opens all desired filetypes if I'm IN >Photoshop; it's when I'm opening an attachment or just clicking on a common image >filetype that I get this damned Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Does anyone know >where it lives in the computer? Searches don't find it. > >Cheers, > >John > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, March 5, 2004 at 5:51 pm Posted by 666 (2255 messages posted) No fix, but a workaround. This will unassociate image files from the pic&fax editor and associate them with photoshop. 1. copy the stuff between the *** into a textfile, save as image.reg: *** Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file\shell\open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop 7.0\\Photoshop.exe\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file\shell\print] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file\shell\print\command] @="C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop 7.0\\Photoshop.exe -p %1" *** 2. Edit the path to photoshop.exe so it points to the right location on your harddisk 3. copy the part with the bmp_auto_file entries and replace bmp with gif, jpg, etc. 4. Put the reg-file in your startup folder . [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Wednesday, July 7, 2004 at 9:08 am Posted by Reverend Jasen (2 messages posted) You need to make the account you're logged in with an administrator. I can duplicate this problem if I make my account a "user" or "power user", and the problem goes away if I switch it to the administrators group. And apparently you can't just log on as another admin account and make the file association changes... the changes will not propagate to the other users in the system. >In addition, when I try to right-click an image file and go to Properties, and attempt >to change the “Opens With”, I do NOT EVEN SEE MY PHOTOSHOP IN THE RESULTANT LIST >OF PROGRAMS, which always defaults to the Picture and Fax Viewer despite my aforementioned >registry changes. When I browse to Photoshop and pick its executable, I am returned >to the program list featuring the Picture and Fax Viewer, and the change is not made. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Wednesday, July 7, 2004 at 9:24 am Posted by Viktoria (440 messages posted) John, right click on every type of image file you have....ect......jpg .tiff .bmp....ect, ect...and use the open with command.....select PS ->tick the box that says"always open these file types with this program.....and it will work. ~Viktoria Life is Like a Beautiful Melody........ On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 4:45 am, John wrote: > >I am a Photoshop aficionado. >I would like all common image types (.jpg, .tif, .bmp, etc.) to open in Adobe Photoshop >when I click on them. However, in my XP, they default to the ?Windows Picture and >Fax Viewer.? I have followed all the suggested registry tweaks in this forum to >no avail. > >In addition, when I try to right-click an image file and go to Properties, and attempt >to change the ?Opens With?, I do NOT EVEN SEE MY PHOTOSHOP IN THE RESULTANT LIST >OF PROGRAMS, which always defaults to the Picture and Fax Viewer despite my aforementioned >registry changes. When I browse to Photoshop and pick its executable, I am returned >to the program list featuring the Picture and Fax Viewer, and the change is not made. > > >My questions: >1) where can I find this Picture and Fax Viewer in order to remove it, and >2) how can I get Photoshop into the list of programs to associate with the desired >filetypes? > >Many thanks, > >John McL. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Monday, July 19, 2004 at 6:44 pm Posted by Rachael (1 messages posted) have you tried going to explorer, folder options, file types, file extensions and adding a new one - then you can associate file types to open with psd On Wednesday, July 7, 2004 at 9:24 am, Viktoria wrote: > >John, right click on every type of image file you have....ect......jpg .tiff .bmp....ect, >ect...and use the open with command.....select PS ->tick the box that says"always >open these file types with this program.....and it will work. >~Viktoria > > > Life is Like a Beautiful Melody........ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 5:09 pm Posted by Lauren (1 messages posted) I had the same problem and none of these suggestions worked for me. Here's the crazy dance I did that finally got this to work: 1.) Go into My Computer>Tools>Folder Options>File Types 2.) Select your first file type (.gif or whatever) and click the "Change" button. Select a program - any program, from the list. Do this a few times until the "Restore" button finally changes into "Advanced." Don't ask me why this doesn't work to begin with, but whatever, ya? 3.) Once the Advanced button becomes available on the File Types tab, click it. Select "open" from the Actions box. and click the "Edit.." button. 4.) Click the "Browse.." button and browse to your photoshop.exe file. Double-click it and the "Application used to perform action" box should update with the path to photoshop.exe. 5.) Click OK to go back to the "Edit File Type" window. Click OK again to return to the File Types tab. Photoshop should now be listed as the program we use to open this file type. BUT WAIT - we're not done. If you still have problems... 6.) Right-click any file that's not working right, and choose Properties. Click the "Change" button. 7.) Select Photoshop from the programs list. Click OK. Double-click to open the file. Swear, because it opens in Windows Picture/Fax viewer again. Calm yourself, proceed to step 8 8.) Repeat step 7. On your second attempt to open the file, you'll find that it opens in Photoshop, like a charm...a very conveluded charm, but a working one, nonetheless. I fancy a straight registry edit-type fix to this weird little dance, but sadly don't know enough about it to delete and recreate the corrupted keys on my own. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, August 20, 2004 at 8:19 am Posted by Mary (1 messages posted) Lauren thank you! THIS is what finally worked for me! I like to use Windows Picture & Fax Viewer to preview the pictures, but then I like to be able to open them with Photoshop Elements. By doing your little "file association dance," I was able to get it working the way I like it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 6:22 am Posted by Radioguy (2 messages posted) OK, here's my problem......(Not too dissimilar) I have PS 7.0, and it's in my right click menu when I click on an image (MS Photo Editor is the default app), but if I choose it to open that image with PS, it only starts PS. (Doesn't open the image) How do I fix this? "All we hear is radio ga-ga, radio goo-goo, radio blah-blah..." [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 7:04 am Posted by 666 (2255 messages posted) make sure that the action (in folder options/file types) reads "path\to\photoshop.exe" "%1". the "%1" part opens the file. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 4:52 pm Posted by Radioguy (2 messages posted) But I don't want PS as the default program for opening images. I want it to remain as an option in the context menu, but be able to open the image when I choose it. (Like it should be doing) Following your advice, I'd have to change the settings for each extension so they'd be opened by PS. (I think) There MUST be another way..... "All we hear is radio ga-ga, radio goo-goo, radio blah-blah..." On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 7:04 am, 666 wrote: > >make sure that the action (in folder options/file types) reads "path\to\photoshop.exe" >"%1". > >the "%1" part opens the file. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Friday, September 10, 2004 at 4:25 am Posted by radioguy (1 messages posted) Anyone? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 5:19 am Posted by Chris (1 messages posted) Thanks Lauren, this worked for me to tell XP to open Adobe's new .DNG format with PS. However, I did not have to go through the repetitive "do it several times until..." steps you describe. Everything worked smoothly first time. I'm using XP2. Maybe MS cleaned up for this release. On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 5:09 pm, Lauren wrote: >I had the same problem and none of these suggestions worked for me. Here's the crazy >dance I did that finally got this to work: > >1.) Go into My Computer>Tools>Folder Options>File Types >2.) Select your first file type (.gif or whatever) and click the "Change" button. >Select a program - any program, from the list. Do this a few times until the "Restore" >button finally changes into "Advanced." Don't ask me why this doesn't work to begin >with, but whatever, ya? >3.) Once the Advanced button becomes available on the File Types tab, click it. Select >"open" from the Actions box. and click the "Edit.." button. >4.) Click the "Browse.." button and browse to your photoshop.exe file. Double-click >it and the "Application used to perform action" box should update with the path to >photoshop.exe. >5.) Click OK to go back to the "Edit File Type" window. Click OK again to return >to the File Types tab. Photoshop should now be listed as the program we use to open >this file type. >BUT WAIT - we're not done. If you still have problems... >6.) Right-click any file that's not working right, and choose Properties. Click the >"Change" button. >7.) Select Photoshop from the programs list. Click OK. Double-click to open the file. >Swear, because it opens in Windows Picture/Fax viewer again. Calm yourself, proceed >to step 8 >8.) Repeat step 7. On your second attempt to open the file, you'll find that it opens >in Photoshop, like a charm...a very conveluded charm, but a working one, nonetheless. > >I fancy a straight registry edit-type fix to this weird little dance, but sadly don't >know enough about it to delete and recreate the corrupted keys on my own. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 6:49 am Posted by Richie (1 messages posted) I managed to get ps7 to both open photoshop and the image in photoshop from the right-click context menu after a few frustrating weeks of only opening photoshop and then manually locating the image. Follow steps 1 to 5 in the above suggestion about registering the jpg file type with photoshop in the Tools>Folder Options > File Types tab, by editing the path, so it points to PS rather than windows viewer. Once you've saved/OK'd that and are back in Windows Explorer, you'll find that photoshop opens all your jpgs etc. Go back into Tools>Folder Options > File Types tab and change the "Opens With" to windows fax viewer and for some miraculous reason, the right click context menu option works! Hope it does for everyone else too. On Friday, September 10, 2004 at 4:25 am, radioguy wrote: >Anyone? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 7:26 am Posted by radioguy (1 messages posted) THANK YOU SIR! That is soooooo simple, that in my efforts I should have tried that, but somehow I didn't.....don't know what's wrong with me. :/ (Slaps self on forehead) Thanks so much! On Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 6:49 am, Richie wrote: >I managed to get ps7 to both open photoshop and the image in photoshop from the right-click >context menu after a few frustrating weeks of only opening photoshop and then manually >locating the image. Follow steps 1 to 5 in the above suggestion about registering >the jpg file type with photoshop in the Tools>Folder Options > File Types tab, by >editing the path, so it points to PS rather than windows viewer. Once you've saved/OK'd >that and are back in Windows Explorer, you'll find that photoshop opens all your >jpgs etc. Go back into Tools>Folder Options > File Types tab and change the "Opens >With" to windows fax viewer and for some miraculous reason, the right click context >menu option works! > >Hope it does for everyone else too. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 8:11 pm Posted by Sue (1 messages posted) Had the same problem ever since I installed Microsoft office and now all my tif icons are "Microsoft Imaging Document". Able to resolve Photoshop not showing in the list by changing the name of the folder in the Programs/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop/to Programs/Adobe/Photoshop and now it shows up. Weird, huh? Also did the change for "open with" to Photoshop - the tifs will open in Photoshop when I double-click on them, but I still can't get the icon for Microsoft document imaging to go back to the Photoshop .tif icon. The default is now the Microsoft Office default and I cannot figure out how to get that out of there. I believe it's the HKEY CLASSES_ROOT/.tif that needs to be changed but don't know what the change should be to get the .tifs to default to Photoshop again. On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 8:32 am, MLS wrote: >Unfortunately, it does not reside in an .exe file, but is buried somewhere in one >of the many .dll (I think) files. One possibility is to try scf /scannow and see >it that replaces what is appears to be a corrupt system file. You will need to have >your XP CD at hand when doing this. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I wish to work using JASC Paint Shop Pro Monday, April 11, 2005 at 11:34 am Posted by James Hatch (1 messages posted) When I try to capture material it always defaults to .bmp in a Windows Picture folder. This program is a pain in the butt and I want to save to a file of my choosing in the format of my choice not Microsofts choice. This is a serious problem and wastes my valuable time. Regards, James Hatch please answer this to ve7cij@rac.ca as this comes direct to my computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I wish to work using JASC Paint Shop Pro Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 3:06 pm Posted by Laura Buzin (1 messages posted) Hi, I do not know if you solved this or not but this is what I did and it works. Go to start/control panel/folder options/file types/new When the new button opened I typed in .jpg clicked advanced which opened “Associate file with” Select the program you wish this extension to be associated with. Click okay and when the message comes up When I clicked okay it said replace default Photoshop 7.0 Application with Paint Shop Pro ? Say yes and it works great. On Monday, April 11, 2005 at 11:34 am, James Hatch wrote: >When I try to capture material it always defaults to .bmp in a Windows Picture folder. >This program is a pain in the butt and I want to save to a file of my choosing in >the format of my choice not Microsofts choice. This is a serious problem and wastes >my valuable time. > >Regards, > >James Hatch >please answer this to ve7cij@rac.ca as this comes direct to my computer. 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