Problem with image information - Please help

[Guest]

Hi.

I've had XP Pro installed on this computer for a while now, and I found
after using Win98 that the new thumbnail option for viewing image folders
very useful - along with the little dropdown information box that displayed
the dimensions of the image. I didn't realise just how much I used it until
it stopped working for no apparent reason.

I run Adobe Photoshop 7 on this computer, and when I installed it, set all
my .jpg and .jpeg were defaulted to Adobe. When I clicked to open them from
the folder, they opened with the nifty little picture and fax viewer first,
and then when I used the 'open for editing' button in there, they popped up
in Adobe.

Then I installed an Adobe CS trial on here, and noticed that they opened
differently (I didn't notice the dropdown information had changed until
later), but I thought that was probably the program and when my trial ran out
and I went back to version 7 it would revert.

It didn't. I now can't see the dimension information in my folder windows,
and if I have the images set to open in Adobe they open straight up in there
whether I want them to or not, and if I set them to open with the picture and
fax viewer they do, but then it doesn't know what to do with them when I want
to edit them.

Does anyone know what has happened to these small but useful features, and
how I can turn them back on? I haven't physically turned anything off,
whatever it is has come from installing that new version of Photoshop. Any
help would be great as I used these things a lot and it's irritating and
frustrating that now they don't work.

Thanks

 

[Kelly]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Adobe+Photoshop+7+Support

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[Alex Nichol]

It didn't. I now can't see the dimension information in my folder windows,
and if I have the images set to open in Adobe they open straight up in there
whether I want them to or not, and if I set them to open with the picture and
fax viewer they do, but then it doesn't know what to do with them when I want
to edit them.

Start - Run the line
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

 

[Guest]

Hi.

Thanks, but I already tried the adobe help forums and they said they didn't
know what it was and to try asking for help on windows instead. :-/

--WanderingElf

 

[Guest]

Start - Run the line
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

Hi.

Thanks for this, but even though I'm not a complete and total computer
illiterate freak, I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean and where to type
or how to run it. Could you give me some instructions on where to go and
what to do for this please? What will it do?

Thanks
--WanderingElf

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hi.

Thanks for this, but even though I'm not a complete and total computer
illiterate freak, I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean and where
to type or how to run it. Could you give me some instructions on
where to go and what to do for this please? What will it do?

Thanks
--WanderingElf

Click Start.
Click Run.
Type this line:
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
Click OK.

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[Guest]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I know it's a little rude to use caps and shout, but that's what I feel like
doing right now. This minor problem has had me frustrated for so long, and
it was so simple to fix. Thank you *so* much Frank, and Alex who posted the
original reply.

--WanderingElf

 

[Kelly]

"Thank You" in caps is acceptable! <w> Glad you have it sorted.

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