Default Viewers - Half Newbie, Half Dangerous

[dtdandl]

I recently loaded a shareware copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 and now when I look at my image file list in Explorer, they are listed as Paint Shop Pro images. When I list the directory in which they reside (via a DOS window - dir/p) they look list out as .jpg, .bmp, .gif files. When I click on them from Explorer, they come up in Paint Shop Pro. How do I change to another viewer as a default? Since Paint Shop Pro is not an image viewer it gets pretty annoying.

I recently had the same problem with Real Player starting up as the default "media player". I don't know how I got it to stop, it just reverted back to Media Player somehow. Any insight into this phenomena would be nice as well.

 

[tsuji]

Hello, dtdandl.

[1] Use highlight-copy-paste to a blank file under Notepad, then saveas, say, OpenBmpGifJpg.reg to any folder to your convenience. The extension .reg is a rigid requirement.

[2] Merge/import the .reg file by doubleclick on it.

;----below this line----OpenBmpGifJpg.reg
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\jpegfile\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\PhotoEd\\PhotoEd.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\giffile\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\PhotoEd\\PhotoEd.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bmp_auto_file\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\PhotoEd\\Photoed.exe\" \"%1\""

;----above this line----
Note : Mind artificial linebreaks which are not there.

See how you make it out. RealPlayer can be taken care later.

regards - tsuji

 

[reghakr]

tsuji,

Are you Psychic?

If you don't have Microsoft PhotoEditor, you can restore the default .jpg and .gif file association by going to View>FolderOptions>FileTypes in Windows Explorer.

If the .jpg and .gif entries don't exist:
Open Windows Explorer, go to View>Folder Options, click the File Types tab. Click New Type...

Type Jpg for Description of type.
Type .jpg for associated extension.
Type open under Action.
Type "C:\Progra~1\Intern~1\iexplore.exe" -nohome for application used to perform action.
Click the use DDE check box.
Type "file:%1",,-1,,,,, for DDE Message.
Type IExplore for Application.
Type

http://WWW_OpenURL

under Topic.
Click OK, Apply, OK.

If they do exist, click the edit button and remove Paintshop Pro from the application used to perform action box and subsitute the above info.

The default association for .bmp is MSPaint:
"C:\Program Files\Accessories\MSPAINT.EXE" %1

Substitute that in the "application used to perform action" box. No other entries are neccessary.

OR
Download Microsoft's TweakUI here:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp

Setup Instructions:
TweakUI uses an .inf file for installing. After extracting the files to c:\windows\temp, open Windows Explorer and right click on TweakUI.inf and choose Install.
Follow the directions on the screen.

Go to Contol>TweakUI, click the repair tab and choose "Repair associations"

For Real Player, open the program, go to View>Preferences, cklick the Upgrade tab and uncheck "Always play RealNetworks Media with Real Player". Then open Media Player, click Tools>Options, click the Formats tab and check them all if you like.

reghakr

 

[tsuji]

Hello, reghakr.

No, I'm not. Just want to use minimum precision language to illustrate the essential.

regards - tsuji

 

[reghakr]

OK

Later,

reghakr