Preview - Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ???


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Anytime I try opening a image (gif, jpeg, bmp I think?), Windows Picture and Fax Viewer pops up with a preview of the image. When I right-click it I notice that 'Preview' is the default action, and that to open it in Paint Shop Pro, I have to choose 'Open'... it's really annoying to have to right click an image everytime I want to open it. I know there's gotta be some way to get rid of this preview crap! I looked in the File Type association dialog, but it looked totally normal there... they're associated with PSP and there's no 'Preview' listed there! Anybody have this problem before or know what I can do to fix it??

:ermm:

Thanks in advance....

Gideon

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Originally posted by glancep

Anytime I try opening a image (gif, jpeg, bmp I think?), Windows Picture and Fax Viewer pops up with a preview of the image. When I right-click it I notice that 'Preview' is the default action, and that to open it in Paint Shop Pro, I have to choose 'Open'... it's really annoying to have to right click an image everytime I want to open it. I know there's gotta be some way to get rid of this preview crap! I looked in the File Type association dialog, but it looked totally normal there... they're associated with PSP and there's no 'Preview' listed there! Anybody have this problem before or know what I can do to fix it??

:ermm:

Thanks in advance....

Gideon

9 posts and you've been here since august?? tut tut....

any ways

I'm not sure about this one. i don't think you can change it.

Could someone else shed some light on this?

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Originally posted by samo123_uk

9 posts and you've been here since august?? tut tut....

Who cares how many times someone posts? I've been here for a very long time, never signed up for the forum, but visited the site very often. Tut tut to me too? Upsetting someone for a silly reason is..just silly. ;) =) It sounds more like your showing off how you've only been signed up for a short time and posted so much, which is even less cool. If you are or aren't, it sure seems that way.

I think a previous thread about it came to the conclusion that unless there's a registry setting for it, you can't change the default for it because windows will always use the picture viewer no matter what you set it to.

I'll take a quick look on ms knowledgebase, see if they mention any registry settings.

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The way I read his post, he is saying that when he normally clicks on a img. file it automatically comes up in preview instead of opening in IE or whatever....maybe I am not understanding correctly, but that is how it came across to me.

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Exactly what he said, but he said windows picture and fax viewer.

I thought that was only in XP, I may be mistaken, I'm not sure. I've got 2000 server edition and it doesn't seem to have it, but I don't know about professional.

In XP, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS open picture files instead of opening in anything else you want, including IE. It's very annoying, but I've gotten to like it.

Like Xavier said however, using TweakXP, you should be able to get it to turn off. I'm sure it's just a registry setting somewhere, but through the normal default program setting changing- nothing gets changed. Picture Viewer is God-Like in that situation. :)

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Thanks everybody for the help... after looking around on TweakXP, I came across the answer...

Here's the page:

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=121

or, the short of it:

just open regedit and delete the key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociationsimageShellExContextMenuHandlersShellImagePreview

Thanks again you guys! ... that was some quick responses

Gideon

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You were right Techneaux, I was not aware that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer was inherent to XP. In 2000 it is called Windows imaging preview. I have not messed with XP in a couple of months. Played with the RC realeases but I am really happy with 2000.

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