-=PCTechTalk=- Re: sharing info on default viewer settings

Thank you so much for sending this in, Dolores.      :)

Google is always the first place I turn when I'm not sure of something.

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dolores" <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- sharing info on default viewer settings


> First I had taken the great suggestion to set everything to infranview.
> Then I decided ACDSee had to go so removed it, thought that as long as I 
> was
> reading in the folder options that all my .ext were set for Microsoft
> Picture and Fax Viewer which I had become used to before the changes I'd 
> be
> fine.  Well it may have said it was set for that but EVERYTHING opened in
> paintshop now.  I thought maybe if I set each .ext to paint shop and then
> back to MPFV that would work (trick it I was thinking).  Nope!  So good 
> old
> google to the rescue.  The first site had me change the string in the file
> type application string - didn't work. So did another google search and
> found where I could type in the Start, Run, textbox
>
> "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" - without the quotes and voila problem solved!
>
> Without google I'd be lost so many times as no matter how much I think 
> I've
> learned to fix quirks, a new one pops up.  Anyhow thought I'd share it in
> case anyone else didn't know about it.  Dolores 


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