Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is missing on my computer

Anonymous
2009-10-19T14:07:53+00:00

I am trying to upload pictures from my digital camera and it goes to a box for cds ,  (like I want to put it on a cd) not the normal one that comes up for putting pictures in a file. I looked for " Windows Picture and Fax Viewer " and can not find it on my computer anywhere. I have no idea where it went. PLEASE help me recover this. I did a system restore back to when it was there, and still it is not there.

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2009-10-19T22:04:21+00:00

I am trying to upload pictures from my digital camera and it goes to a box for cds ,  (like I want to put it on a cd) not the normal one that comes up for putting pictures in a file. I looked for " Windows Picture and Fax Viewer " and can not find it on my computer anywhere. I have no idea where it went. PLEASE help me recover this. I did a system restore back to when it was there, and still it is not there.

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Just to verify...you must be running Win XP (not Vista) to

have WP&FV...

The following command should force a reinstall of WP&FV...

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

John Inzer - MS-MVP - Digital Media Experience

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-14T23:09:24+00:00

    Perfect!   Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-15T02:05:22+00:00

    Perfect!   Thanks.

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    You're welcome.

    Thanks for the update.

    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***

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-12-15T13:00:48+00:00

    Mr.V

    hv been looking at this thread to solve athe same prob as the orig post. "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is missing on my computer" as you instructed went to run and ran the command "regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll".  However I recieved the error that my "shimgvw.dll" was not installed.  I searched for the dll and found it in the sys32 folder.  Further instructions...

    Thx B20

    Windows XP pro sp3

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-12-15T14:49:35+00:00

    Mr.V

    hv been looking at this thread to solve athe same prob as the orig post. "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is missing on my computer" as you instructed went to run and ran the command "regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll".  However I recieved the error that my "shimgvw.dll" was not installed.  I searched for the dll and found it in the sys32 folder.  Further instructions...

     

    Thx B20

    Windows XP pro sp3

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    If you ran the command as you posted it with quotation marks...that could be the problem...

    remove the quotation marks and try again.        regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll 

    Aside from that...I don't know what to tell you...that command is supposed to force a reinstall of WP&FV.

    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***

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