Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

[Guest]

Recently I apparently lost the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer from my pc. I
have XP Home Ed. which came with Picture and Fax Viewer. But when I try to
open any picture or open "My Picutres" a different program is used. I tried
to search my pc for the original Picture viewer, but found nothing. Does
anyone know how to get it back?

 

[John Inzer]

Recently I apparently lost the Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer from my pc. I have XP Home Ed. which came with
Picture and Fax Viewer. But when I try to open any
picture or open "My Picutres" a different program is
used. I tried to search my pc for the original Picture
viewer, but found nothing. Does anyone know how to get it
back?

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Try this...

Right click an image file and from the menu...
choose...Properties / General tab / Change button...

On your "Open With " screen...select...
"Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" / OK / Apply / OK...

If this does not restore your viewer...try the following:

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"

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[Guest]

I have tried both things, and although if I click on "open with", I can get
the viewer to work, it redirects me if I just click on it regularly. Is
there anyway I can get the windows picture and fax viewer set back up as my
default viewer?

Thanks.

 

[John Inzer]

I have tried both things, and although if I click on "open
with", I can get the viewer to work, it redirects me if I
just click on it regularly. Is there anyway I can get
the windows picture and fax viewer set back up as my
default viewer?

Thanks.

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Redirects you to what? What program do
the images open in?

OK...Try this...open an image folder and right
click one of your image files...from the menu,
select...Open With / Choose Program.

Make your choice from the list or Browse to the
correct program if it is not in the list. Once you
make your selection...be sure to check the box
that says: "Always use the selected program to
open this kind of file". (you will need to do this
for each format....jpg, .tif, .gif...etc.)

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[John Inzer]

Thank you thank you thank you.. Johan you helped me with
this posting tremendously.. I followed and it now works
again.. I have my Windows Picutre and Fax viewer opening
all pictures again.

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You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.


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[Guest]

If you find out I'd like to know too. I think that Service
Pack 2 has deleted the old XP Picture viewer with the
slideshow feature and substituted Picture Editor (which is
a piece of junk).

 

[Paul Ballou]

Try running this from Start | Run | Type > regsvr32 shimgvw.dll


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