WHERE is Photo Printing Wizard?

[Guest]

I'm making contact sheets of the contents of a large number of CDs. I'd like
to use both my CD drives to make the process go faster. However, I don't know
how to initialize the Photo Printing Wizard on demand. Currently, for the CD
in the first drive, I get a dialog box that offers several options, one of
them being "print the contents of the CD" or some such. When I move to the CD
in my second drive, the options box doesn't appear; I have to open the drive
and close it again.

I'd like to put a shortcut on my Desktop for the wizard, but I can't find
it. I've seen hints here that it's in "My Pictures" but it's not there.

Can anyone tell me where the Photo Printing Wizard resides?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You'll have to copy the pics from your CD to the
"My Pictures" folder in order to use the Photo
Printing Wizard.

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Microsoft MVP
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| I'm making contact sheets of the contents of a large number of CDs. I'd like
| to use both my CD drives to make the process go faster. However, I don't know
| how to initialize the Photo Printing Wizard on demand. Currently, for the CD
| in the first drive, I get a dialog box that offers several options, one of
| them being "print the contents of the CD" or some such. When I move to the CD
| in my second drive, the options box doesn't appear; I have to open the drive
| and close it again.
|
| I'd like to put a shortcut on my Desktop for the wizard, but I can't find
| it. I've seen hints here that it's in "My Pictures" but it's not there.
|
| Can anyone tell me where the Photo Printing Wizard resides?

 

[Earl F. Parrish]

I'm making contact sheets of the contents of a large number of
CDs. I'd like
to use both my CD drives to make the process go faster. However, I
don't know
how to initialize the Photo Printing Wizard on demand. Currently,
for the CD
in the first drive, I get a dialog box that offers several
options, one of
them being "print the contents of the CD" or some such. When I
move to the CD
in my second drive, the options box doesn't appear; I have to open
the drive
and close it again.

I'd like to put a shortcut on my Desktop for the wizard, but I
can't find
it. I've seen hints here that it's in "My Pictures" but it's not
there.

Can anyone tell me where the Photo Printing Wizard resides?

It is a DLL file called Shimgvw.dll which opens pictures as the
Picture and Fax Viewer. Did you check the Autoplay settings for the
second drive from its Properties? Autoplay can be set differently
for each removable drive.

 

[Stefan Engelbert]

Would this help you?

rundll32.exe shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo /pt "%1" "Wrocklage PDF Printer"

 

[Guest]

If you give my orginal question a careful reading, you'll note that an option
box appears automatically when I insert the first CD, offering the option to
print directly from the CD. And that there is no print option in my "My
Pictures" folder. How would your suggestion work?

 

[Guest]

That may very well be helpful, Stefan. What is it and what should I do with it?

Thanks,
Eileen

 

[Guest]

Interesting stuff. I didn't know my drives could have different settings.
I'll check into that this morning.

Tell me more about the .dll file. Since it's not an .exe file, how would I
use it?

Thanks,
Eileen

 

[Earl F. Parrish]

That may very well be helpful, Stefan. What is it and what should
I do with it?

Thanks,
Eileen

That is the command line for the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in
case you have to set associations for graphics files.