Where is the Photo/Fax Viewer program?

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Fulcanelli

I need to know where MS stores the default Photo/Fax View program.
Yeah, I know that it's "supposed" to be available as an option for
viewing pics when I right click the mouse, but I changed the default to
another program, and using FireFox browser, it's not there. So I have
to do digging for it. Where might that be? I have Windowx XP, of
course.

Thanks.
 
Try this, should restore the P/FV option:

go to...Start / Run and type:

"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


Gord
 
I need to know where MS stores the default Photo/Fax View program.
Yeah, I know that it's "supposed" to be available as an option for
viewing pics when I right click the mouse, but I changed the default to
another program, and using FireFox browser, it's not there. So I have
to do digging for it. Where might that be? I have Windowx XP, of
course.

Thanks.
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There isn't a Windows Picture and Fax Viewer executable... they get executed with:
rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

To enable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, register shimgvw.dll. This can be done
from command prompt, or the Start, Run box:

regsvr32 /shimgvw.dll

Additional note: unregistering shimgvw.dll will also disable thumbnail view in Explorer and may
cause problems changing user account, desktop background pictures, and user icons.

Disable or Restore Picture and Fax Viewer:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm See Article #80
or
http://www.theeldergeek.com/delete_pic_and_fax_viewer.htm
 
There isn't a Windows Picture and Fax Viewer executable... they get executed with:
rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

To enable the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, register shimgvw.dll. This can be done
from command prompt, or the Start, Run box:

regsvr32 /shimgvw.dll
Click to expand...

that's regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
 
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