Windows Picture & Fax Viewer

[bmwpowere36m3]

hi, recently my windows picture & fax viewer stopped working... i cant open up picture on my computer, i can only view them in internet explorer, when i doubled click on the image is does nothing, I was wondering if there was a way of reinstalling it... thanks!

[Peccavi]

If you find the default Picture and Fax Viewer more of an annoyance than a help, it can be removed as follows:

[Start] [Run] type regedit.exe and click [OK]
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/SystemFileAssociations/image/ShellEx /ContextMenuHandlers
Delete the Folder ShellImagePreview under ContextMenuHandlers

If you change your mind and want to restore the Picture and Fax Viewer

Create the ShellImagePreview folder and create the String Value (Default)
Assign it the value {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}

This is just an idea. Not mine...
I am afraid of regedit. Ask others hoe to do this

[Fed]

Can you right click on the file & select 'open with'?

[bmwpowere36m3]

yes i know, but i would like the windows picture viewer to work

[bmwpowere36m3]

i tried reinstalling it with regedit, but still nothing, anything else i could do?

[Fed]

Try Open With>Choose Program> Pick the one you want & save the change.

[bmwpowere36m3]

thanks, i know all those tricks, but other than paint or explorer there arent any other programs to open pictures with... and i dont care for paint or explorer, basically when i doubled click the picture or open with windows picture... the computer does nothing but make a buzz sound... i was hoping there would be a way to reinstall it or figure a way to get it working...

[Fed]

When you go down the list of something to open it with don't you also get a button that will let you choose something that is not on the list?
Trick #84

[bmwpowere36m3]

i'm sorry, i think were thinking cross terms, lol... i know there are other programs to open pictures with, i was wondering if there was a way to restore windows picture and fax, ... I could open it in explorer or paint, but my question was on restoring windows picture and fax, maybe someone could help with that, thanks for all the input

[GX1_Man]

When did it last work correctly and then what happened, do you think?

You may think about using system restore if it was fairly recently, but the usual caveats about you will need to download updates again if very long ago.

[bmwpowere36m3]

so what you guys are sayin, that short of reinstalling windows or system restore, i just gotta deal with not having it...

[GX1_Man]

so what you guys are sayin, that short of reinstalling windows or system restore, i just gotta deal with not having it...

or seeing what Microsoft has to say about it:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/image_overview.mspx

Or doing a Google search and seeing what you find:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Windows+Picture+and+Fax+Viewer


May the Force be with you.  

[bmwpowere36m3]

*censored*, i've tried everything... heres what i came out to, i think to get windows pict and fax working again a need rundll32.exe and shimgvw.dll mine might be corrupted and thats why windows pic and fax is not working anybody can get me those two files?

[Windows98]

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?shimgvw
Not recomended to use from these sites im sure you can find someway to reinstall it from a CD or something. Surely you can reinstall the aplications from add or remove windows components?

[bmwpowere36m3]

thanks for all the help, i got it figured out!