Picture and fax viewer too slow!

[furyIII]

I have several thousand .tif files that users on my network need to be able to view and print. I am in the process of migrating our desktop os from 95 to XP Proffessional. Wang imaging included with 95 worked great with all the functionality needed.

XP's picture and fax viewer is way too slow. It seems to want to read every file in the directory. Printing is even more painful with the photo printing wizard.

Is there a way to make this work or are there other viewers?

 

[linney]

329270 - You Cannot View TIFF Images Using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329270&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

The following is from Lockergnome tips.

10th December 2001

Kodak did a wonderful job on their Imaging Application (which comes bundled with Windows 98 and Windows 2000). As I archived more and more black and white documents, I came to appreciate its power. Sadly, this utility does not exist in Windows XP. There's no KODAKIMG.EXE or KODAKPRV.EXE to be found! My heartfelt thanks goes out to Lockergnomaniac John Hunter, who found a solution for those of us who miss our dear old app. We agree that the new "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" sucks. If you have a Windows 2000 CD, copy the following files from the disc: OCKODAK.DLL, OIENG400.DLL, OIPRT400.DLL, OISLB400.DLL, OISSQ400.DLL, OITWA400.DLL, OIUI400.DLL, IMGCMN.DLL, IMGADMIN.OCX, IMGEDIT.OCX, IMGSCAN.OCX, and IMGTHUMB.OCX. Note that these files may still be compressed in the "**_" format.

You will need to use either the EXPAND.EXE utility or WinZip to uncompress them. If you have a Windows 98 CD, copy those same files PLUS the following: OIADM400.DLL, OICOM400.DLL, OIDIS400.DLL, OIFIL400.DLL, OIGFS400.DLL, IMGSHL.DLL, and IMGOCXD.HLP. In both cases, you should place all of them inside your System32 folder. Now, it's time to register the OCX files. Tap Winkey+R to launch the Run applet and then enter: "regsvr32 imgadmin.ocx" (sans quotes). Do the same for imgedit.ocx, imgscan.ocx, and imgthumb.ocx. Remember, to unregister an ActiveX control, you only need to trail regsvr32 with the "/u" switch. Be sure you've copied over the aforementioned executables to your System32 folder. They should work now! NOTE: You may need to launch the Kodak program to see if there are any other files missing from this procedure.