Re: Windows Fax and Picture Viewer

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Hello,

Well what's happening is that the dll is not being registered or some other
application on your system is causing this to happen. Those are the only
possibilities that I can think up of right now. Perhaps when installing
applications such as Photoshop (for example), you enabled it as the default
applications to handle such things. Because if you type in 'regsvr32 /i
shimgvw.dll' in the run menu (try it if you haven't done it already) usually
it should re-register the dll and make it available, however if it doesn't
then there might be some third party application messing around with this.

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Regards,
Rishi
http://beyondteck.blogspot.com


"Astra" <Astra.2874jz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rishi Wrote:
Hello,

To open picture files using Windows Fax and Picture Viewer try this-
Right
click on a picture file Choose 'Open With' Click on 'Choose
Program...'
Select 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer' put a check mark beside
'Always
use the selected program to open this kind of file Click 'ok'. Now it
should open that kind of picture files with Windows Picture and Fax
viewer,
you might have to repeat this for different kinds of files.

For thumbnails please follow the advice listed by others above.
Registering
shimgvw.dll should fix the problem. If not try Start Run type in
'regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll' (without the quotes of
course)
then type in regsvr32 %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll to re-register it.

And make sure to click on 'View' 'Thumbnails' in the menubar of the
explorer window to see thumbnails of the image.

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Regards,
Rishi
http://beyondteck.blogspot.com


"Astra" Astra.2859vv@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
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For a few days, I have observed that I am unable to use the built in
'Windows Fax and Picture Viewer' utility to open my pics. Not only
that, but I cannot see thumbnails, cannot preview the pics & am
forced
to use Photo Editor & browsers to see them. I keep on double clicking
the pictures but nothing happens at all.

How do I fix this 'Windows Fax & Picture Viewer' thing? Please help
me
on this.


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Astra

I have tried this too, but to no effect. What's exactly is wrong?


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Astra


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