Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

[Guest]

In an attempt to eliminate annoying animated ads on newspaper sites, I went
to Folder Options>File Types, scrolled down to GIF, clicked, then
Advanced>Actions, selected Open>Edit, and under Applicaton Used to Perform
Action, deleted Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, leaving the field blank.
That'll show 'em! Only it didn't work, and now I can't figure out how to
restore the app for GIF files. Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

try this...

Click Start | Click Run | Paste: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll | Click OK

If that doesn't work, make sure Preview default is set correctly.

When you open an image file in Windows XP the default action is to preview
it using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\
ShellImagePreview
Value Name: (Default)
Value Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}

Also if that doesn't work...
[[Installing a third-party image editor or viewer applications may sometimes
hijack the image file associations. In those cases, this utility allows you
repair the file associations for the following image file types to Windows
XP defaults:

BMP DIB EMF GIF JFIF JPG JPE JPEG PNG TIF TIFF WMF ]]

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

The first suggestion worked. Thanks a lot! Now, have you any suggestion as
to how to disable the GIF animations in Web pages?

try this...

Click Start | Click Run | Paste: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll | Click OK

If that doesn't work, make sure Preview default is set correctly.

When you open an image file in Windows XP the default action is to preview
it using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\
ShellImagePreview
Value Name: (Default)
Value Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}

Also if that doesn't work...
[[Installing a third-party image editor or viewer applications may sometimes
hijack the image file associations. In those cases, this utility allows you
repair the file associations for the following image file types to Windows
XP defaults:

BMP DIB EMF GIF JFIF JPG JPE JPEG PNG TIF TIFF WMF ]]

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

In an attempt to eliminate annoying animated ads on newspaper sites, I
went to Folder Options>File Types, scrolled down to GIF, clicked, then
Advanced>Actions, selected Open>Edit, and under Applicaton Used to Perform
Action, deleted Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, leaving the field blank.
That'll show 'em! Only it didn't work, and now I can't figure out how to
restore the app for GIF files. Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[Mike Williams]

The first suggestion worked. Thanks a lot! Now, have you any suggestion as
to how to disable the GIF animations in Web pages?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/turnoffanimations.mspx

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Glad to hear it.

Turn On or Turn Off Play Animations in Web Pages
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/ie6/animations.aspx

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

The first suggestion worked. Thanks a lot! Now, have you any suggestion
as to how to disable the GIF animations in Web pages?

try this...

Click Start | Click Run | Paste: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll | Click OK

If that doesn't work, make sure Preview default is set correctly.

When you open an image file in Windows XP the default action is to
preview it using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\
ShellImagePreview
Value Name: (Default)
Value Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}

Also if that doesn't work...
[[Installing a third-party image editor or viewer applications may
sometimes hijack the image file associations. In those cases, this
utility allows you repair the file associations for the following image
file types to Windows XP defaults:

BMP DIB EMF GIF JFIF JPG JPE JPEG PNG TIF TIFF WMF ]]

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

In an attempt to eliminate annoying animated ads on newspaper sites, I
went to Folder Options>File Types, scrolled down to GIF, clicked, then
Advanced>Actions, selected Open>Edit, and under Applicaton Used to
Perform Action, deleted Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, leaving the
field blank. That'll show 'em! Only it didn't work, and now I can't
figure out how to restore the app for GIF files. Thanks for any help
you can give me!

 

[Guest]

try this...

Click Start | Click Run | Paste: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll | Click OK

If that doesn't work, make sure Preview default is set correctly.

When you open an image file in Windows XP the default action is to preview
it using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\
ShellImagePreview
Value Name: (Default)
Value Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}

Also if that doesn't work...
[[Installing a third-party image editor or viewer applications may sometimes
hijack the image file associations. In those cases, this utility allows you
repair the file associations for the following image file types to Windows
XP defaults:

BMP DIB EMF GIF JFIF JPG JPE JPEG PNG TIF TIFF WMF ]]

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

In an attempt to eliminate annoying animated ads on newspaper sites, I
went to Folder Options>File Types, scrolled down to GIF, clicked, then
Advanced>Actions, selected Open>Edit, and under Applicaton Used to Perform
Action, deleted Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, leaving the field blank.
That'll show 'em! Only it didn't work, and now I can't figure out how to
restore the app for GIF files. Thanks for any help you can give me!