Using Windows fax console

[Chip]

I have used the Windows fax console for receiving faxes for a while. I had
Photoshop installed when I started using the fax system in Windows. I could
VIEW and it would open Photoshop automatically.

I deleted Photoshop and now have Photoshop Essentials 8. I now cannot VIEW
anything because I don't have software to view .tif . I know that
Essentials opens it, but I can't find anywhere in the fax console to tell it
to go to Essentials.

Please help.

 

[Bernd]

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I have used the Windows fax console for receiving faxes for a while. I had
Photoshop installed when I started using the fax system in Windows. I could
VIEW and it would open Photoshop automatically.

I deleted Photoshop and now have Photoshop Essentials 8. I now cannot VIEW
anything because I don't have software to view .tif . I know that
Essentials opens it, but I can't find anywhere in the fax console to tell it
to go to Essentials.

Please help.

RUN

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

Bernd

 

[Chip]

I copied and pasted what you wrote into Run and nothing happened. I retried
to view a fax and I received the same error message.

chip

 

[Mark Adams]

I have used the Windows fax console for receiving faxes for a while. I had
Photoshop installed when I started using the fax system in Windows. I could
VIEW and it would open Photoshop automatically.

I deleted Photoshop and now have Photoshop Essentials 8. I now cannot VIEW
anything because I don't have software to view .tif . I know that
Essentials opens it, but I can't find anywhere in the fax console to tell it
to go to Essentials.

Please help.

Right click the file you want to open, select Open or Open With. Choose
"Select the program from a list" button if offered. Open With box opens,
select Photoshop Essentials and check the box "Always use the selected
program to open this kind of file."

 

[Chip]

When I right click, I do not get that option.....

chip

 

[Mark Adams]

When I right click, I do not get that option.....

chip

You don't get an Open or Open With option in the right click menu?

 

[Chip]

I only posted to two (2) different groups that I felt were the most useful....

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I only posted to two (2) different groups that I felt were the most useful....

Posting to two (or even a few more) groups is fine. Vanguard's point
(and mine) was not that you did that, but that you multiposted (sent
the two messages separately) rather than crossposted (sent a single
message addressed to both groups.

Here's my standard post on the subject:

Please do not send the same message separately to more than one
newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just fragments the thread,
so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't always get to see
answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all
the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message
multiple times instead of once (they would see it only once if you
correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets
you poorer help than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please
do so by crossposting -- sending a single message simultaneously to
multiple newsgroups (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "Multiposting vs Crossposting" at
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

 

[VanguardLH]

I only posted to two (2) different groups that I felt were the most useful....

And you MULTI-posted instead of cross-posted. Again read my reply to
understand what is cross-posting and why it should get used when
submitting your SAME message to multiple RELATED newsgroups.