Microsoft windows and fax viewer

Everything opens fine in photoshop, paint, explorer etc…. In the active title bar for the window, it either shows up blank, or says as the file name. In the Create Shortcut wizard, type rundll Eric, try pointing it to explorer.

If the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is the default for the image type that your scanner is using, it should work. Click on Restore. It will change to Advance. Then click on Advance. I was able to remove Image Ready references. I restored Preview by changing the program used to…. Then fix the default program used to open the file it got changed when first clicking on the Restore button back to the default in my case Corel PhotoPaint.

I just wanted to let you know how your work has benefited some kids. It let me help out some sixth and eighth graders at a school in South Carolina who are taking my Pearls of Perl course and wanted to know how to get their Perl program to display pictures. I had searched through Microsoft Help for some time and tried guessing the process name from the task manager display as well as looking through the Windows directory for the name of an exe.

Thanks Much — Jed. A newbie to XP, some program or another hijacked all my graphics file associations early on in my computer setup. Now, when I double click a graphics file it shows it to me with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, but I can still right click and have it open with the graphics program of my choice. I was so stunned I almost fell off my chair, this accommodating behaviour is most unlike Windows….

I tried re-installing but when I try to run the command it shows the error the file not found, I tried the other way to but that did not work either, is it possible i have deleted the dll kindly advise.

If shimgvw. Create an icon for Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on your desktop or in a folder which appears on the desktop. Then change the properties so that the target is: rundll In Windows Explorer, go to the folder containing the pictures you want to view. Then you will be able to use all its features on the pictures in the folder you selected. Is there any way to get back to the Pictures and Fax Viewer?

The photo gallery program is not nearly as friendly. All the best Brian 7 Mar When using the second method to restore the default viewer, you must add the quotations when typing in the program path or you get an error saying….. Download the mozilla add on that will launch an internet explorer tab in a mozilla session…then open the link with picture and fax viewer.

Thanks for the info. You solved my version of the problem. My preferred default was MS Office Document imaging that I use to incorporate scanned images into powerpoint.

My default with XP was reset by the widely reviled office upgrade. Not only was this an extra couple of steps, but I often forgot and double-clicked and got the wrong progam. Hi, Leo — My problem is different but I feel related to this thread. That is what happened in the past. I must have done something to change my settings.

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All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! The other day I got a couple of variations on the reverse:. Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! Thanks, Reply. Next tried double left-click to open a standard JPG picture.

Sockhatguy hotmail. Thanks, Peter Reply. Where can I find information on the command line parameters for shimgvw. In particular I need to know how to send a tiff file to the default printer without user intervention. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help.

Thanks for your feedback. Thank you. What I need is information on ALL the command line paramerters and options. It's the others I need help on. I tried all the variations I could think of, and nothing worked. So I need a pretty full explanation of the parameters needed for this one. And it would be good if there were a reference with explanation for ALL the different options.

I too have searched far and wide for this solution. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Pictureflect Photo Viewer. In the ensuing message at the bottom of your screen that asks if you want to Run or Save the. Windows 10 has an app named Photos , a successor to Picture Manager that lets you edit photos. For information on how to open and use it, see Edit photos and videos. For information about editing a photo that you've inserted in an Office or Office document, see Editing photos without Picture Manager.