Properties Dialog Tab - Where did it come from?

[Spoon2001]

Is there a tool that will identify what application put a particular tabbed
page (Property Sheet) in a Properties dialog?

I right-clicked on a JPEG file, and lo and behold, there was an Image tab on
the Properties dialog, with a little red and blue square icon it. The EXIF
info was listed on this tab. Excellent!

But how did that tab (Property Sheet) get into that Properties dialog? I
have lots of graphics programs on my system, which one did it?

Ultimately I tracked it down the old fashioned way ... REGEDIT. Looked at
the .JPG key under \HKCR. This redirects me to "jpegfile". Looked at
\HKCR\jpegfile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers. OK, there was
"PixVuePropertySheet". I exported that key to a REG file and deleted it.
Voila, that property sheet is now gone! Of course, I re-imported that key
so that I can have that nice property sheet.

But does anybody know of any easier way to identify what program is the
source of a new tab in a Properties dialog box?

I went back to ShellExView and found PixVuePropertySheet. ShellExView lets
you disable and re-enable selected shell extensions, including
PropertySheetHandlers. It worked. Recommended.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Property Sheets (Windows Explorer and Controls)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/propsheet/propsheet.asp

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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