In older MS OS's, you had the ability to use one program for "openong" and
another for "editing" graphics. Has that capability been discontinued with
WinXP?

I'd like to use one program to "view" graphics and a different one to "edit"
graphics, but the option doesn't appear to be available any longer when
setting file type associations.

Jakey wrote:
> In older MS OS's, you had the ability to use one program for
> "openong" and another for "editing" graphics. Has that capability
> been discontinued with WinXP?
>
> I'd like to use one program to "view" graphics and a different one to
> "edit" graphics, but the option doesn't appear to be available any
> longer when setting file type associations.
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Maybe the following link will offer some ideas:

Change the default image editor
application, invoked from Windows
Picture and Fax Viewer
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgeditor.htm

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"John Inzer" wrote:

> Maybe the following link will offer some ideas:
>
> Change the default image editor
> application, invoked from Windows
> Picture and Fax Viewer
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgeditor.htm

Thank you John...that did the trick. As the "note" below stated, I needed
to "restore" the old file association before I was given access to the
"advanced" tab.

>To change the editor for a particular image file type:

>Click Start, Run and type CONTROL FOLDERS
>Select the File Types tab
>Select the image file type from the listing, and click the Advanced button
>Create a new action by clicking New
>In the Action text box, type Edit
>In the Application used to perform action box, type the full path to the image >editor application
>Click OK, OK to close the dialog
>The default image editor application is now set for that particular file type.

>Note: In step 3 above, if the Advanced button is not available, click the Restore >button once so that the Advanced button replaces the Restore button