temp directory for the Picture viewer

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gls858

I'm not at my XP machine right now. What is the
default directory and it's path for the Viewer?

gls858
 
Hi,

Unless altered in the environmental settings, the default temp folder for
users is:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\local settings\temp

The picture viewer is not an executable, it's function of the shimgvw.dll
file. The path found in the file association "open" function should be:

rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick said:
Hi,

Unless altered in the environmental settings, the default temp folder for
users is:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\local settings\temp

The picture viewer is not an executable, it's function of the shimgvw.dll
file. The path found in the file association "open" function should be:

rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
Click to expand...
Thanks Rick. Kind of a strange situation. We had a customer call and
say that she rec'd porn in one of our e-mail attachments. She seemed
pretty clueless and when I tried to explain that the attachment was only
950 bytes and couldn't possibly contain 7 or eight pictures she just
said "When I opened it, they were there". When I asked her exactly what
she did, she said she tried to print (?) the gif file (the file was the
background on the e-mail)and her picture viewer opened up. Yes the first
photo looked just like the background but the next 7 or 8 files were
porn. So I tried to explain to her that the viewer held several pictures
in a temp file and after displaying the background gif the viewer was
just displaying photos ALREADY on her machine. I don't think she
believed me. When I told her the photos were probably still there she
wasn't very happy. I said I would do what I could to help. I thought
asking her to search her HD for *.jpg would get to many results so the
only thing I could think of was to find the directory and have her
delete the photos.



Something new everyday :-)

gls858
 
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