Re: Windows Picture and Fax Viewer problem

The pictures are always the same - some junk that came thru from a 'friend'.
When I open an attached picture to an email with
the win P&F Viewer, the one I open comes up. Then if I use the forward
button, it goes to a file with elephant_en at the top with
a box in which is an ad for free animations for your email by IncrediMail
with moving elephant, then next pict is box with 6 animal and
picture heads in it advertising free emoticons for your webmail, the next 9
pictures are of people looking stupid. Altogether there are
11 'frames' added on to every picture attachment opened with w p&f v and
they are the same 11 frames.. I don't want to save them,
did not save them at any time, and cannot find them anywhere on my system.
I know they are here somewhere, but they are not in any
temporary file that I can find. I've cleaned out all temp files. I've gone
through at the pictures on my system, I've even gone through the
program files and looked at pictures/graphics associated with the programs.

If they are in the same folder, where is this folder???? Is it the temp
folder everyone has talked about?

I have no web page, and sites I regularly go to does not have these pictures
on them. I know these unwanted images come from an
email received months ago.






forward again to
"spamlet" <spam.morespam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Picasa is one of Google's many tools: if you already have the google
toolbar, you may already be using Desktop search to index your pc for easy
file finding: Picasa does a similar thing for your pictures, but also
seems to include other user accounts, whereas DS has a different index for
each user.

Nobody came back on the idea of getting a new dll file?

Also Paula, you haven't really described what you mean by unwanted
pictures being 'attached' to pictures that you open. What exactly do you
see on screen when you open a picture? Do you mean that you see two or
more pictures side by side (very odd): or do you mean that when you press
the forward and back buttons you see other pictures?

The other pictures that you see with these buttons are the next images in
the same folder. If you have opened an image from an email: this is not
yet stored as an image in your normal filing system (so don't trust your
email prog to store images you particularly like) so it opens in a temp
folder. That folder will almost always have a few images from websites in
it: even if you clean it out regularly there will still be page art, gifs,
logos, etc from any web site you have visited since you last cleaned out,
and even clean out programs are often set to leave the most recent items,
as a default. Thus, if you have say, a 'home page' on the web, or another
page that you frequently visit, that has any images in it, you will almost
always see these images when you open a picture from an email and then
click the forward or back button. Thus every time you open your 'home
page', the 'same' images will be back in your temp folder.

This may all be obvious to you all, but it has not been explicitly stated
so here it is for what its worth.

S



"Paula" <vpall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What/where is Picasa?

And thanks, Yves, for the help. I think you are right - maybe it's a
ghost file!


"spamlet" <spam.morespam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just a thought, but if you try letting Picasa search your whole pc for
pictures, it might perhaps throw some light on where these pictures
actually reside. Picasa seems to have an alarming ability to turn up
things thought to have gone long ago, and also to find all the gifs etc
in the temp etc folders, and to be completely oblivious of who's account
they are actually stored in.

Worth a try?

Also, if by some peculiar chance these pics have become attached to the
viewer dll, can she not be given a new dll and delete the old one, just
to make sure?

Regards,

S


"Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> wrote in message
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Then you really have a very obscure problem.
The posted solutions given to you have always worked before. So we now
have to think harder about what the problem could be.
Sorry about not being able to provide more help.


"Paula" <vpall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, I did, in fact, follow the info left earlier re: temp files. I
found OLK files, but none were the ones that keep popping up.
Everything re: temp files that was posted earlier was followed. Temp
files are cleared from my system every week in the normal way at any
rate. This problem has been going on for several months.

I will try to find the zip files that Michael refrenced.



"Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> wrote in message
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I don't think you followed all instructions provided by John Inzer.
Try following this again:

If these are files were downloaded from or e-
mail, they may be in a subfolder of your Internet temporary files.
The folder
name will start with OLK and there will be a number after OLK. The
easiest
way to find this folder it is to search for OLK* and once found open
it and see if the
files are there.
Click on Start and Search and then
All files and folders
More advanced options
Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders
In the top textbox "All or part..." type in exactly this
OLK*
and click search
This search will take a while but should return all
folders starting with
OLK.
Open the folders, change the view to Thumbnails and see
if the unwanted
files are there. If so, just select them and delete. They
will go to your Recycle bin, delete them from there also. Or, hold
the Shift key down when you delete them in order to prevent them from
going into your Recycle bin.




"Paula" <vpall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have done all that were suggested. I do disk clean up regularly as
part of my maintenance, but repeated it again.

The pics - which I don't want!- are nowhere to be found. OLK*
located a couple files, but these particular pics were not there.
And I did include the advanced options in the search.



They appear to be 'attached' to the win pic & fax viewer function.
They do not occur with any other picture viewing program.

Can I get to the win p&f viewer program and see if there are somehow
attached there??? I have been unable to get that function to come
up so I can search it.

"John Inzer" <oobie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paula wrote:
Posted this in another forum earlier, but got no response.

I run XP Pro, McAfee Security suite, keep system updated and
scanned
for bugs/etc weekly.

Problem: when I open a picture with Win Pic and Fax Viewer, there
are
several pictures attached to the one I am trying to open. These
were
pics that came from an email several months ago, and were deleted
at
the time. When I open a picture with any other program, there are
no
add'l pics attached to it. The type of pic I try to open makes no
difference.
I have searched for files with the label on the 'extra' pics but
nothing comes up. I have gone through all files visually with
pictures in them, but cannot find these 8 pictures. I also cannot
locate the win pic & fax viewer file to see if they are somehow
attached to this function.
Any suggestions appreciated.
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You are seeing Temporary Internet Files.

If you wish to recover these pictures...navigate
to your Temporary Internet Files folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\>username<\
Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

If you cannot find the folder it may be hidden...
open any folder and go to...Tools / Folder Options /
View tab...Tick..."Show Hidden Files and Folders /
Apply / OK. Now try again to find the folder.

===

If you wish to eliminate the files...read the following.

Running Disk Cleanup to delete Temporary
Internet Files may help:

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

Also the following article explains how to
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder:

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

And...if you use MS Outlook...the following
info previously posted by Yves Alarie may
be useful:

Files downloaded from the internet or e-mail,
may be in a subfolder of your Temporary
Internet Files folder.

The folder name will start with OLK and
there will be a number after OLK. The easiest
way to find this folder is to search for OLK*
and once found open it and see if the files
are there.

Click on Start and Search and then:
All files and folders
More advanced options
Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders

In the top textbox "All or part..."
type in exactly this OLK*
and click search

This search will take a while but should
return all folders starting with OLK.

Open the folders, change the view to
Thumbnails and see if the unwanted files are
there. If so, just select them and delete. They
will go to your Recycle bin, delete them from
there also. Or, hold the Shift key down when
you delete them in order to prevent them from
going into your Recycle bin.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

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me may not work for you

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