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WSkentg
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August 25, 2006 at 4:24 am #434833

I am trying to associate fthe picture and fax viewer with my scanned images, can anyone tell me the name and maybe ever the location of the viewer’s exe, I cannot find it anywhere.

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- WSjscher2000
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  August 25, 2006 at 5:12 am #1026081
  
  First thing, does right-click, Open With, Windows Fax and Picture Viewer, let you set a default?
  
  If the file extension is TIF / TIFF, perhaps this utility will help: Repair image file type associations in Windows XP. (This thread about a “follow up hack” for that utility is interesting: http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/do…opict36566.html%5B/url%5D)
  
  If it’s a novel extension, and you want it to behave just like another extension, you could try duplicating its registry keys. Unfortunately, the path of execution through the registry is seldom straightforward…
  
  This key seems like an important part of the puzzle, but documentation just does not fall immediately to hand:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociations
  
  (Added – the viewer is not an EXE, or it would be much simpler!)
  
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- WSAlanMiller
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  August 25, 2006 at 5:26 am #1026087
  
  It’s packed in a .dll file called shimgvw. The commandline to “run” it is:
  
  rundll32.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1
  
  where the %1 is the image file. If you have a particular file type (extension) in mind, you can make the association in Windows Explorer – Tools > Folder Options… > File Types. Call back if you need further help.
  
  Alan
  
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- WSkentg
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  August 25, 2006 at 7:22 am #1026091
  
  Thanks guys, ufortunately my scanner won’t let me use a dll – it demands an EXE so i’ll just have to use paint.
  
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  WSbigaldoc
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  August 25, 2006 at 10:26 am #1026101
  
  You might want to try one of these freebies, rather than Paint:
  
  Paint.NET
  
  PhotoPlus
  
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  WSAlanMiller
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  August 25, 2006 at 10:34 am #1026102
  
  Just for fun, I wrapped the DLL call into an EXE. It seems to work as expected. Please give it a try. You can also drag/drop a file onto it, or target it fom the Send To menu. Less than 200KB, but still too big to post here, so grab it from http://397.port5.com/kentg.zip%5B/url%5D
  
  Alan
  
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  WSkentg
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  August 26, 2006 at 2:39 am #1026201
  
  Gee Alan, I am impressed! this works beautifully.
  
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  WSAlanMiller
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  August 26, 2006 at 1:42 pm #1026205
  
  Glad it does the trick.
  
  Just BTW, that was done using AutoIt v3 – Automate and Script Windows Tasks – For ! –
  4 lines of code, 2 minutes of coding, and 5 minutes beta testing, debugging and patching.
  Dim $Program if $CmdLine[0] > 0 Then $Program = "rundll32.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen " & $CmdLine[1] Run($Program, "") EndIf
  
  Alan
  
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