Re: Cannot open windows picture and fax viewer. Found a new soluti

Victor,

Here is the syntax | example for expand command:

expand h:\i386\shimgvw.dl_ -r c:\windows\system32

Assumes H:\ is the CD-ROM drive-letter. And C:\ is where Windows is installed.

--
Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"victor_7000" <victor7000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:19DCE585-6DF1-49D0-8E82-E711FFCCA33A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Thank you for the explanation, Ramesh.


I tried the Rick's method but when doing
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll i still get the same annoying message filenotfound, etc.

My laptop is a company laptop, and the original XP CD is 1000km far away.

I'm going to try again the expand. I just found the file C:\I386\shimgvw.dl_
is that file that one i need to expand? Maybe this is what i did wrong, it's
my firt time with the expand utility :-)

regards
Victor

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Victor,

The method described in that site will work. However, it defines a different
control for thumbnail extraction. The default shell image viewer that comes
with XP (shimgvw.dll) already contains a GDI+ Thumbnail extractor, and no
need to explicitly define it from JPG files. It displays the preview
automatically. Therefore, I'd give preference to the solution that Rick
recommended.

Note that shimgvw.dll is useful for many other tasks, not only for thumbnail
generation. So, pls ensure that the DLL is extracted correctly (Use the
Expand command and get a copy from the XP CD, or copy from
ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, whichever is the recent version), and
re-register it to verify.

--
Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"victor_7000" <victor7000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:26539D00-9E24-4EDD-980B-BC6C0D02F645@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thank you for your answer, Rick.
>
> Unfortunately this did not work.
> However, i found a solution for the thumbnails problem, consisting in
> changing some registry data. this is the address with this solution
>
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=37752&DisplayTab=Article
>
> For the picture and Fax viewer, i still cannot open it, but i > associated
> all
> the image files with microsoft photo editor and it makes the job.
>
> Thnks again for the 'expand' trick anyway, i did not know you could > repair
> dll's in this way.
>
> regards,
> Victor
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- >> 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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