picture and fax viewer edit button error

[Randy S]

Hello,
My winXP (home w/sp1) "picture and fax viewer" edit botton does nothing.
It closes the program but does not open anything at all. Right clicking
the picture in its window I can click on edit and MSPhotoEditor opens up
just fine. I know about the regedit in :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

I changed the default %systemroot%\system32\mspaint.exe to Photo editor
just fine but it didn't help the fact that Picture and Fax viewer has a
problem with the edit button. My other XP machine (home with sp1 added
later) works just fine. Even the fact that I never changed
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command from
its default of mspaint it opens in Photo Editor everytime.

What can I do? Is there a way to reinstall just the picture and fax
viewer? Could the dll be bad? I'm not sure if it ever worked right but
it sure is dead now.

Thanks
Randy

 

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/Randy S/ said:

Hello,
My winXP (home w/sp1) "picture and fax viewer" edit botton does nothing.
It closes the program but does not open anything at all. Right clicking
the picture in its window I can click on edit and MSPhotoEditor opens up
just fine. I know about the regedit in :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

I changed the default %systemroot%\system32\mspaint.exe to Photo editor
just fine but it didn't help the fact that Picture and Fax viewer has a
problem with the edit button. My other XP machine (home with sp1 added
later) works just fine. Even the fact that I never changed
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command from
its default of mspaint it opens in Photo Editor everytime.

What can I do? Is there a way to reinstall just the picture and fax
viewer? Could the dll be bad? I'm not sure if it ever worked right but
it sure is dead now.

Click START|RUN and type this --- and see what happens...

regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

 

[Randy S]

/Randy S/ said:




Click START|RUN and type this --- and see what happens...

regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

I had already done that... it didn't help. I actually first did
"regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll" and then "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll." I see a few
other postings that others have had the same prob and were never able to
fix it. Darn. I was thinking about re-installing the dll from another
source (my good XP from my other computer) but I wasn't sure the steps I
would have to take to get it into winXP. I see you can't just erase one
copy and insert the other.

Randy