Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

[Guest]

I work with two computers, one at home, one at work. I don't always keep
pictures in the My Pictures folder so when I want to view them I use Windows
Explorer to get to the folder I have pictures in and then doulble click on
the picture I want to view. At work when I do that the picture loads into
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. At home when I do that the picture just
displays but not in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer which is undesirable. How
can I get it so the pictures load in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on the
home computer? BTW I have recently loaded SP2 on the home computer, could
this be the reason? Also, the home computer used to load the pictures in
Windows Pciture and Fax Viewer - I don't know for sure when it changed but it
very well might have been when I loaded SP2.

 

[John Inzer]

I work with two computers, one at home, one at work. I
don't always keep pictures in the My Pictures folder so
when I want to view them I use Windows Explorer to get to
the folder I have pictures in and then doulble click on
the picture I want to view. At work when I do that the
picture loads into Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. At
home when I do that the picture just displays but not in
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer which is undesirable. How
can I get it so the pictures load in Windows Picture and
Fax Viewer on the home computer? BTW I have recently
loaded SP2 on the home computer, could this be the
reason? Also, the home computer used to load the pictures
in Windows Pciture and Fax Viewer - I don't know for sure
when it changed but it very well might have been when I
loaded SP2.

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Right click an image file and from the menu...
choose...Properties / General tab / Change
button...select..."Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer" / OK / Apply / OK.

If that fails...try the following:

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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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John Inzer
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