It's probable that the key phrase in your post is "but i may have
inadvertantly deleted something i shouldnt have using the 'Regedit' feature
?" If that coincided with the start of the problem, then you have your
answer. Doing regsvr32 shimgvw.dll only registers the .dll file. It will
not restore any registry keys or strings that you might have changed or
deleted relating to the viewer. If you don't have a System Restore Point
just prior to when the problem began, then you don't have a way of restoring
the registry so that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will run as it did
before you edited the registry.
What doesn't make sense is that your post says you've "recently encountered"
this problem. Yet you want to go back to a Restore Point in April. It's
May 27th, nearly a month after April. That doesn't make sense, when you
write that the problem is RECENT. If the first time that you realized that
there was a problem was in May, try a May Restore Point just prior to when
you think the problem began. System Restore, by default automatically
creates Restore Points depending upon certain conditions, approximately
every 24 hours, and names each of those Restore Points: System Checkpoint.
The BOLD dates on the System Restore calendar in the left pane are the ones
with Restore Points. If I misread your post, or you misworded it, and the
problem is NOT recent, but began in April: System Restore only allocates a
maximum of 12% of your hard drive space for Restore Points, automatically
deleting the oldest Restore Points to make room for the new ones. So, if
the problem began in April, and you don't have a Restore Point, and you
don't know what you edited in the registry: You could try a Repair Install
of Windows XP, which will retain your programs and data files. That might
not fix the problem though. It would depend upon how, and what, you edited
in the registry.
For a step by step walk through of a
Windows XP Repair Install, including screenshots, go to:
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
When the page opens, scroll down and click on: How To Run A Repair
Install.
What you will lose though, are any Windows Updates which you might have
installed. They will have to be installed again. But, if it fixes your
problem, without losing
your data files and software, that would only be a minor annoyance.
T.C.
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Pb said:
Hello, was hoping someone could help with a problem i've recently
encountered with the picture viewer on my XP Home version computer. I use
the picture viewer all the time to view pics i save directly to my desktop,
but now i am unable to view any new, or existing pics from my desktop using
the viewer. However, i can view my pics in any other folder using the
viewer, except my desktop ?? - seems like the program is still working, but
i may have inadvertantly deleted something i shouldnt have using the
'Regedit' feature ?
I''ve tried to re-load the viewer, and even removing, and then re-adding
it, to no success. Have been thinking that maybe something is wrong with my
desktop ??
When i typed regsvr32 shimgvw.dll , it came up with the following:-
dllregister server in shimgvwdll succeeded ?? I've had a look at system
restore, but i cant go back to the month of April ? - still out of luck !
