Rotation won't work on some photos

[Lori]

When trying to view newly updated photos one night, we clicked the box to not
allow a rotation because, according to the message, it may cause the program
not to work properly. Since then, Picture Viewer will not allow any rotation
of photos. I have read the other questions here and found the fix of
entering the line into Run, which worked on SOME of the photos, but not all.
Can anyone think of a reason why some photos can be rotated and others can't?
Seems the one set of photos that we clicked that box on still can't be
rotated.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[John Inzer]

When trying to view newly updated photos one night, we clicked the
box to not allow a rotation because, according to the message, it may
cause the program not to work properly. Since then, Picture Viewer
will not allow any rotation of photos. I have read the other
questions here and found the fix of entering the line into Run, which
worked on SOME of the photos, but not all. Can anyone think of a
reason why some photos can be rotated and others can't? Seems the one
set of photos that we clicked that box on still can't be rotated.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Unless you have extremely low resolution images...
rotating them will do no harm and even then you
would probebly have to rotate them several times
before you could visibly detect any loss..

To reset the Rotate dialog...try the following...

Open an image in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer...

Hold your Ctrl key and close the viewer...(X on titlebar)

You should see a dialog that says:

"Any rotation warnings that you may have suppressed
have been reset, and may appear again when you
rotate a picture."

Now you may need to run the following command:

Go to...Start / Run and type
(or copy/paste):

"REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL"
(without the quotes)(Yes, there's
a space between 2 and S)

Click...OK.

A dialog box should report the following:

"DllRegisterServer in SHIMGVW.DLL succeeded"

Try rotating your pictures...

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Lori]

John:
Thank you so much. We didn't have to go any further than the first
direction to open a photo and X out while holding down the Ctrl key. We got
the dialogue box and from there on in, it worked. You are our hero!

Thanks again,
Lori

 

[John Inzer]

John:
Thank you so much. We didn't have to go any further than the first
direction to open a photo and X out while holding down the Ctrl key.
We got the dialogue box and from there on in, it worked. You are our
hero!

Thanks again,
Lori

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You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Lori]

My pleasure to provide the update. It's such a relief to have an annoying
computer glitch solved. It's greatly appreciated.