Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is missing on my computer

I have this problem.  I do  not have Windows PIcture and Fax Viewer.  I ran the regedit with the command

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Picture It! 7\pip.exe" "%1"

It was successfully installed.  But, nothing happened.  I still do not have the WP&FV.

I have Windows XP HOme Edition 2002 SVC pack 3.

can you help, pLease? 

Thanks

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The command you ran does not force a reinstall of Windows

Picture And Fax Viewer.

Try the following:

Go to...Start / Run...and type

         (or copy/paste):

regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll

(yes, the space after the 2 and the space

after the i is required)

Press...Enter...

You should see a dialog box that says:

DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shimgvw.dll succeeded

Now...the following command should launch a blank Windows

Picture And Fax Viewer screen. It will say: No Preview Available.

rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen

Now set WP&FV as your default viewer and you should be ready to view photos.

Open a folder and right click right click a photo...

From the menu...choose...Properties / Change Button...

Select Windows Picture And Fax Viewer and click...OK / Apply / OK.

Let us know the exact result.

Volunteer J - MS-MVP - Digital Media Experience - Notice_This is not tech support_I am a volunteer - Solutions that work for me may not work for you - ***Proceed at your own risk***

I have this problem.  I do  not have Windows PIcture and Fax Viewer.  I ran the regedit with the command

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Picture It! 7\pip.exe" "%1"

It was successfully installed.  But, nothing happened.  I still do not have the WP&FV.

I have Windows XP HOme Edition 2002 SVC pack 3.

can you help, pLease? 

Thanks

I downladed imgeditor, which turned out to be an editor called gimp.  Not sure how that helped.  It seems to be a very good editor, but very slow to load.  However, I want the old Windows Picture editor to be called from WP&FV.  Can anyone tell me how to do that?

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Are you running Windows XP? What Windows Picture Editor

are you referring to?

The following article explains how to set the default editor

for WP&FV.

"How to open your choice of image editors when

clicking the Edit button on the Windows Picture

and Fax Viewer screen"

***Proceed with caution at your own risk***

IMPORTANT: This message contains information

about modifying the registry. Before you modify the

registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that

you understand how to restore the registry if a problem

occurs. For information about how to back up, restore,

and edit the registry, click the following link to view the

article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Information About Editing the Registry

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=256986#Topic2

OK...go to...Start / Run and type in..."regedit" without

the quotes. Then click...OK...or press...Enter.

In the Registry Editor...drill down to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

In the Data column you should see:

"%systemroot%\system32\mspaint.exe" "%1"

(where you see *mspaint* in the example....you will

see your current default)

Replace the key with the path to the program that will

be your default image editor. I wanted Picture It! 7 so

the following is what I changed to.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Picture It! 7\pip.exe" "%1"

Now, my images still open in the Picture and Fax viewer

but if I left click the Edit button...Picture It! 7 opens.

To replace the string...

Left click "default" to select it.

Go to...Edit / Modify...

In the "Edit String" field...

Copy/Paste the path to your program choice:

"C:\Program Files?????????????.exe" "%1"

Left click...OK.

Now, your images still open in the Picture and Fax

Viewer but if you left click the Edit button...your image

editing program opens..

Good luck.

Volunteer J - MS-MVP - Digital Media Experience - Notice_This is not tech support_I am a volunteer - Solutions that work for me may not work for you - ***Proceed at your own risk***

I downladed imgeditor, which turned out to be an editor called gimp.  Not sure how that helped.  It seems to be a very good editor, but very slow to load.  However, I want the old Windows Picture editor to be called from WP&FV.  Can anyone tell me how to do that?