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Greetings to all
I use Photoshop CS on different laptops as well as Photoshop Elements. In
list form all photos have the rather bland icon that indicates that the
picture, if selected, will open in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. This also
means that the photo, if sent by email, will carry the same icon, and will
readily be capable of being opened by any email recipient.
Recently, however, I put Paintshop Pro on one machine with the result that
every icon on every photo file in my system -- and there are many!-- turned
into a Paintshop Pro icon. I realise it is possible to open such files by
selecting for WPFV to be the application to open the individual photograph,
but this may not be easy to use for any email recipient, and it is
inconvenient for me to have to make this specific choice on every occasion I
seek to view a photo. I encountered a similar problem when loading CorelDraw
(which includes Corel PhotoPaint).
My question is obvious. How can I load a photo editing program without it
succeeding in altering all the relevant icons on all my existing photo files.
For the record, one machine is XP Pro, the other XP Home, both are SP2.
If anyone has come across this small but annoying problem and has any ideas
on how to avaoid it, I should be happy to hear from you.
I use Photoshop CS on different laptops as well as Photoshop Elements. In
list form all photos have the rather bland icon that indicates that the
picture, if selected, will open in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. This also
means that the photo, if sent by email, will carry the same icon, and will
readily be capable of being opened by any email recipient.
Recently, however, I put Paintshop Pro on one machine with the result that
every icon on every photo file in my system -- and there are many!-- turned
into a Paintshop Pro icon. I realise it is possible to open such files by
selecting for WPFV to be the application to open the individual photograph,
but this may not be easy to use for any email recipient, and it is
inconvenient for me to have to make this specific choice on every occasion I
seek to view a photo. I encountered a similar problem when loading CorelDraw
(which includes Corel PhotoPaint).
My question is obvious. How can I load a photo editing program without it
succeeding in altering all the relevant icons on all my existing photo files.
For the record, one machine is XP Pro, the other XP Home, both are SP2.
If anyone has come across this small but annoying problem and has any ideas
on how to avaoid it, I should be happy to hear from you.