Re: Cannot open windows picture and fax viewer

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Hi,

Exapnd a new copy of shimgvw.dll. Start/run msconfig, click on "expand file"
(general tab)

File to expand: shimgvw.dll
From: %windir%\servicepackfiles\I386
To: %windir%\system32

Reboot when finished.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"victor_7000" <victor_7000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BBF18048-D88B-442C-A3CA-213E6CD43FE7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello all,
>
> I cannot see the thumbnails of any file, and i see instead the generic
> icons
> for jpg, bmp, etc files.
> I associated all these files to windows picture viewer and i selected
> view->thumbnails, but the problem is that i cannot start this program
> I tried with regsvr32 shimgvw.dll but it tells me
> loadlibrary("shimgvw.dll") failed. the system cannot find the specified
> file.
>
> Is my picture viewer corrupted or lost? what could i do?
> thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> victor.


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