What if I *want* Windows Picture and Fax Viewer?

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That's this article:
http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_get_windows_picture_and_fax_viewer_in_windows_vista.html

Leo

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1.click start-control panel.
2.click folder options.
3.in folder options-click file types click NEW.
4.in create new extention enter [TIF] infile extention box. then click ADVANCED.
5.in associated File Type drop down find TIF Image.
6.click OK.
7.find TIF Image in the list.
8.click OK
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the above worked for me, and still doe's.
All the best Brian
7 Mar 2008

When using the second method to restore the default viewer, you must add the quotations when typing in the program path or you get an error saying.....

"The specified program could not be found. Make sure the path and file name are correct."

In the Application used to perform action: enter
"C:\WINDOWS system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen" "%1"

Download the mozilla add on that will launch an internet explorer tab in a mozilla session...then open the link with picture and fax viewer.

Thanks for the info. You solved my version of the problem. My preferred default was MS Office Document imaging that I use to incorporate scanned images into powerpoint. My default with XP was reset by the widely reviled office 2007 upgrade. I was using right click open/with but was just double clicking to get my preference.
Not only was this an extra couple of steps, but I often forgot and double-clicked and got the wrong progam. MS Office Document Imaging allows you to select a portion of the image and edit/"copy image" to paste into a powerpoint slide. This is very useful in adapting powerpoint to replicate the blackboard / transparency / notes techniques for college classes (I'm an adjunct prof).

Importing this registry key will set picture and fax viewer as default for TIF and TIFF files.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.TIF]
@="TIFImage.Document"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.TIFF]
@="TIFImage.Document"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document]
"EditFlags"=dword:00010000
"FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,\
00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,\
32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,69,00,6d,00,67,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,2c,00,2d,00,33,00,30,00,36,00,00,00
"ImageOptionFlags"=dword:00000000
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000008
@="TIF Image"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\DefaultIcon]
@="shimgvw.dll,4"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\open]
"MuiVerb"="@shimgvw.dll,-550"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\open\command]
@="rundll32.exe C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\open\DropTarget]
"Clsid"="{E84FDA7C-1D6A-45F6-B725-CB260C236066}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\printto]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\printto\command]
@="rundll32.exe C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo /pt \"%1\" \"%2\" \"%3\" \"%4\""

Is there any way of getting Windows Picture and Fax Viewer to run on Vista?

Hi, Leo - My problem is different (but I feel related to this thread). Now, when I scan text, when I am getting an uneditable (apparently unconvertible)"photo" image. I want text that I can covert to Word with OCR. That is what happened in the past. I must have done something to change my settings. My operating system is XP and I have Word from Office 2003. Thank you for this help, Alan

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