Shortcut to Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

[Guest]

Where is this program? I want to set up a shortcut to it in my Start Menu.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer = shimgvw.dll

rundll32.exe (Run a DLL as an App) executes it.

%windir%\\system32\shimgvw.dll
or
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll

I want to set up a shortcut to it in my Start Menu.

You can't. But you can creat shortcuts to individual pictures.

From David Candy...

rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen
filename.ext (or folder name)

Sample:
Start | Run |
rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen
C:\Documents and Settings\Wesley P. Vogel\My Documents\My Pictures\Assorted
Logos\cia_seal_06.jpg

Or shortcut with the complete command and path.

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Wes
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[WTC]

Where is this program? I want to set up a shortcut to it in my Start
Menu.

This following will start Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen

You cannot open picture by a file menu. However, you can drag and drop the
picture into the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer to be able to view the
picture.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi William,

I just tried

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen

and you can drag a folder full of pictures into Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer. You can then use the Previous Image or Next Image buttons to scroll
through the pictures in that folder or the Start Slide Show button.

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[WTC]

Wesley,

Well how about that, just leaned something new again. Thanks for the
tip.

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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Hi William,

I just tried

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen

and you can drag a folder full of pictures into Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer. You can then use the Previous Image or Next Image buttons to
scroll
through the pictures in that folder or the Start Slide Show button.

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[Wesley Vogel]

This works also.

This is going to wrap, I know it is, so I wrapped it.

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,
ImageView_Fullscreen %userprofile%\My Documents\My Pictures

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[WTC]

You beat me to it. I also just tried was you just posted.

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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

This works also.

This is going to wrap, I know it is, so I wrapped it.

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,
ImageView_Fullscreen %userprofile%\My Documents\My Pictures

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Wesley Vogel]

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[Austin.Cox]

This is a related question and you guys were so fast getting an answer
above that I thought that I would try also:

Is there a command to only open certain images? For example, you can
open a specific file using rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen
filename.ext (or folder name).

However, Picture and Fax Viewer has the nice feature that if multiple
files are selected, it will only preview those files when you cycle
through. Is there a modification that you can make to the command
above to identify more than one (say four) files that you want to
preview?