Viewing digital pictures on the computer

[nofitz]

Right now my computer is using the Paint program to view my pictures I have downloaded from my camera.  When I click on the thumbnail of a picture, I can't view it in its entirety because the picture is so huge, it just zooms in on a small part of it.  I want to use another program to view my pictures but I don't know how or what to change it to.  Help!

[BC_Programmer]

Try Right-clicking on one of your pictures. Select Open With, and "Choose Program".

Look for "Windows Picture And Fax Viewer"

If it is there, select it. Then check off "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file". Your pictures should now open in the Picture viewer, which allows you zoom in/out.

if it doesn't appear in the list, though:

1. Start->Run. Type regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

you should get a message, DLLRegisterServer in "shimgvw.dll" suceeded.

Now see if it appears in the Open with list. (however, I might add that usually it also re-associated itself with jpegs and gifs and so forth, so you might not need to perform the open with stuff I described above if you need to re-register the dll)

[nofitz]

Thank you so much!  I have spent so much time trying to figure that out and you just took care of it instantly.  I really appreciate it.

[BC_Programmer]

Your welcome, we're nerds, we learn about this stuff for no reason, with the hopes it will come in handy for ourselves or others one day

Any other problems come back and visit

[patio]

I resemble that comment....