How to prevent IE from opening JPGs?

[Guest]

I use hyperlinks in MS Access to view JPGs. Everything works fine on my
several Win2K machines. I just added a new XP system. On the new system,
clicking on the same hyperlinks now causes Internet Explorer to open as a JPG
viewer. I have JPG file associations set to Irfanview in Windows Explorer,
and Irfanview opens all JPGs elsewhere. But not those hyperlinked in Access.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Irfanview. IE persists in opening JPG
hyperlinks. Does anyone know how stop IE from opening JPGs?

(Other info: All systems patches are current. File associations are set
correctly. No viruses. No spyware. )

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Coxrail,

See if this helps. (applies to Office 2000 products)

Start the Registry Editor and select the following subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Internet

On the Edit menu, point to New, and click DWORD Value.
Enter ForceShellExecute as the value name.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 1.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Start the Registry Editor and select the following subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Internet

On the Edit menu, point to New, and click DWORD Value.
Enter ForceShellExecute as the value name.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 1.

 

[Eric]

Trying to change the behavior of InternetExplorer IE when you click on
a link that points directly to an image...

For example:

This link: http://whatever.com/image.jpg

When you click on this, IE's default behavior is to open up the image
in a browser window...

We instead would like it to open up the image in say, microsoft picture
editor for example or paint.exe, or paintshop, or whatever we specify.

Do you know of a registry setting or other way to change this behavior
?

best regards,

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Eric,

From which application you're clicking the hyperlink?

 

[Eric]

IE

 

[Guest]

Excellent idea...but, no change.

Coxrail,

See if this helps. (applies to Office 2000 products)

Start the Registry Editor and select the following subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Internet

On the Edit menu, point to New, and click DWORD Value.
Enter ForceShellExecute as the value name.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 1.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

See my corrected post. You need to make the changes under HKLM.

 

[Guest]

Excellent. I had thought about adding ForceShellExecute under HKEY Local, but
got distracted and forgot. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this fix.
It was driving me crazy. Thanks.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome!