Turning off Windows Fax and Picture Viewer

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Liz300385

Like the last poster I don't like viewing my pics with
this please please please help me turn the dratted thing
OFF
Liz
 
Right click on one of your photo.
Click on Open with on the opening menu.
Click on Choose program on the opening menu.
Select the viewer you want on the opening list and check the box
"Always...."
You need to do this for each image file type you have, jpg, bmp, tif, etc.
Once done, you image will open with the viewer you selected.
 
ok that works to some extent.

now whenever i open an image with IE it opens a new window
instead of using the same window

how do i remove that?
 
Well, IE is the same as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Sure it opens a new
window for a new picture, how can it use the same window for a new picture?
And it reverts to the same thing as Windows Picture and Fax viewer once you
open a new picture.
Why don't you tell us what you want?
You don't like Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Fine. What is it that you
don't like about it?
 
well before i switched to XP from 2000 whenever i selected
multiple image files and pressed enter, internet explorer
would open the images using the same browser window

but after installing XP with SP2, and reassociating jpegs
with IE, the images now open in individual browser windows
 
I never used 2000, so I am not familiar with how it displayed photos.
I will take a guess about what you want (or what you used to have with
2000).
Suppose you select 3 images and you open them. You want all of them to be
displayed simultaneously on the screen (one window) and each picture has its
own window within the screen (you used the tile view mode) or if you used
the cascade view mode each picture is displayed in a window and you can
switch from one to the other by clicking on any one.
You cannot do this with XP Windows Fax and Picture Viewer.
On XP, the only reasonably priced (about $60.00) photo editing software
capable of doing this is Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. Once you select the
photos, you open them and you click on Window on the top bar of the screen,
then Images and you select cascade or tile display.
If this is indeed what you want, this is the only way I know how to do this
with XP.
 
How did you associate the jpegs with IE. Exactly how.

What do you mean by multiple pictures in the same browser window.
 
Rather simple.
Right click on a jpg
Click on Open with
Click on Choose program
Internet Explorer is on the list, select it.
Check the box "Always...
Click on OK.
Now double click on a jpg and it will open in IE.
If you need another photo, click on the blue down arrow of the address bar,
and then navigate to the photo you want. It will open in a new IE window.

The person wants to open several pictures in one window and see all of them,
I don't think he necessarily means "browser" window (this obviously cannot
be done with IE) but it can be done with Elements 2. You can open 4 photos
and "tile" them. You will see all 4 at a good size (obviously this also
depends on your screen size, I have a 19 in. screen so this works great for
me) in the same window. If you open more than 4, the size of each gets
reduced. However, you can "cascade" as many as you want and open each one
when as you need them.

How did you associate the jpegs with IE. Exactly how.

What do you mean by multiple pictures in the same browser window.
 
Yves,

No, what IE6 under SP2 is doing differently that it used to is this:

double click a jpg ( for example C:\Documents and Settings\David\My
Documents\My Pictures\2004Vacation\cd01\01420001.JPG ) in windows explorer
and IE launches to display the image
change the filename in the address bar to show the next file ( C:\Documents
and Settings\David\My Documents\My Pictures\2004Vacation\cd01\01420002.JPG )
a new IE window is launched to display the image

before SP2 was applied the image would display in the original IE instance.

df
 
Thanks for the update. I am still on SP1. Now we will need to know if
someone is on SP1 or SP2. Maddening.

David Frankenbach said:
Yves,

No, what IE6 under SP2 is doing differently that it used to is this:

double click a jpg ( for example C:\Documents and Settings\David\My
Documents\My Pictures\2004Vacation\cd01\01420001.JPG ) in windows explorer
and IE launches to display the image
change the filename in the address bar to show the next file ( C:\Documents
and Settings\David\My Documents\My
Pictures\2004Vacation\cd01\01420002.JPG )
 
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