.tif cannot be viewed in IE

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Mark Higashigawa

when i click on a hyperlink to a tiff file, the image doesn't open,
instead i get a tiny icon in the top left corner of the screen.
i am using a win XP sp1 machine with ie 6 sp1.
 
when i click on a hyperlink to a tiff file, the image doesn't open,
instead i get a tiny icon in the top left corner of the screen.
i am using a win XP sp1 machine with ie 6 sp1.
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There is not internal support for tiff files in IE. You need a 3rd party
plugin.
 
Mark Higashigawa said:
when i click on a hyperlink to a tiff file, the image doesn't open,
instead i get a tiny icon in the top left corner of the screen.
i am using a win XP sp1 machine with ie 6 sp1.
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By default .tif is opened by the Picture and Fax Viewer.
By default many other image file types are opened by the same app.
To re-establish *all* such defaults Run... (e.g. press Win-R and enter:)

regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll

If you have any other program currently opening those other file types
make sure that you know how to re-establish its associations before
trying the above command.

FWIW here are the ones which would be changed:
ftype | find /i "shimgvw"
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emffile=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
giffile=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
jpegfile=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
Paint.Picture=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
pjpegfile=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
pngfile=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
TIFImage.Document=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
wmffile=rundll32.exe D:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
</example>


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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