how to associate an application with Win Explorer Preview?

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yodel_dodel
Jan 19, 2010
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Sorry for asking a windows question here, but since I experience the problem in conjunction with PS, I hope folks here might know the answer. Thanks for your patience.

When I right click on an image in Windows (XP) Explorer, I get a popup that, amongst other options, contains [Open, Edit, Edit with Photoshop, Preview].

All of these result in calling Photoshop.

Previously, the "Preview" option called the "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", I don’t know when this changed and what caused the change. I tried to fix this through the Tools/FolderOptions/FileType dialog, but that only affects what action is associated with "Open".

How can I get "Preview" to call "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer"?

Or, more generally speaking, how do I associate applications of choice for the various Explorer options?

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Dave
Jan 19, 2010
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:11:33 +0100, "Greg N." wrote:
How can I get "Preview" to call "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer"?
Or, more generally speaking, how do I associate applications of choice for the various Explorer options?

Good day to you Greg

Open ‘My Computor’
Navigate to the photo
Right Click on the Photo
Click on ‘Open With’
Click on ‘Choose Program’
*Now you check ‘Always Use The Selected Program…’
Now you go ‘Windows Picture & Fax Viewer’
and ‘Okay’

Dave
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yodel_dodel
Jan 19, 2010
Dave wrote:

Open ‘My Computor’
Navigate to the photo
Right Click on the Photo
Click on ‘Open With’
Click on ‘Choose Program’
*Now you check ‘Always Use The Selected Program…’

This is a way to specify the app for the "open" function.

My question was, how to specify the app for the "Preview" function.

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PU
Photoshop User
Jan 19, 2010
"Greg N." wrote in message
Dave wrote:

Open ‘My Computor’
Navigate to the photo
Right Click on the Photo
Click on ‘Open With’
Click on ‘Choose Program’
*Now you check ‘Always Use The Selected Program…’

This is a way to specify the app for the "open" function.
My question was, how to specify the app for the "Preview" function.
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slightly more complicated but if you know the exe command line for Pic/Fax viewer
you can fix it by going to start>control panel>FOLDER options>file types tab>choose jpg from the list>choose advanced in the box you can edit the functions in there

however since PIC FAX viewer is only a preview program anyway you can’t edit with it
choosing it for open works like preview anyway

my comp is set to open JPG with PicFax and if I double click JPG it previews the image
I don’t want Photoshop to open every time I click a jpg, takes too long I have EDIT set to Photoshop

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yodel_dodel
Jan 19, 2010
Kabuki wrote:

you can fix it by going to start>control panel>FOLDER options>file types tab>choose jpg from the list>choose advanced in the box you can edit the functions in there

Sorry, but that’s just another way to set the "open" function, not "preview".

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Jan 19, 2010
"Greg N." wrote in message
Kabuki wrote:

you can fix it by going to start>control panel>FOLDER options>file types tab>choose jpg from the list>choose advanced in the box you can edit the functions in there

Sorry, but that’s just another way to set the "open" function, not "preview".

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the part you are not getting is that VIEWER ==============IMPLIES it does not EDIT images it only previews them

so OPEN in that program will PREVIEW the image as it can’t do anything else

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yodel_dodel
Jan 19, 2010
Kabuki wrote:

the part you are not getting is that VIEWER ==============IMPLIES it does not EDIT images it only previews them

It’s not always obvious to everybody involved who’s not getting what 🙂 🙂

In explorer’s file context menu, there is an option "open". You described how to make "open" invoke the Pic&Fax Viewer.

In [my] explorer’s file context menu, there is also an option "preview". I want to know how to make "preview" invoke the Pic&Fax Viewer.

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l v
Jan 19, 2010
On 1/19/2010 4:39 PM, Greg N. wrote:
Kabuki wrote:

the part you are not getting is that VIEWER ==============IMPLIES it does not EDIT images it only previews them

It’s not always obvious to everybody involved who’s not getting what 🙂 🙂
In explorer’s file context menu, there is an option "open". You described how to make "open" invoke the Pic&Fax Viewer.
In [my] explorer’s file context menu, there is also an option "preview". I want to know how to make "preview" invoke the Pic&Fax Viewer.

Understand what you are looking for but not sure how to correct. You may need to find the proper registery entry to change.

Since "preview" is a default option, It could be as simple as changing "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With" to {09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936} . But that is just a guess.

You’d be better off posting to a Microsoft newsgroup vs this multi-platform application newsgroup.

Until, you find the real answer, you can add your own "My Preview" option by opening Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types. Select your extension, click Advanced. Click New. Action: My Preview
Application used ….. : rundll32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

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Joe
Jan 20, 2010
"Greg N." wrote:

Sorry for asking a windows question here, but since I experience the problem in conjunction with PS, I hope folks here might know the answer. Thanks for your patience.

When I right click on an image in Windows (XP) Explorer, I get a popup that, amongst other options, contains [Open, Edit, Edit with Photoshop, Preview].

All of these result in calling Photoshop.

Previously, the "Preview" option called the "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", I don’t know when this changed and what caused the change. I tried to fix this through the Tools/FolderOptions/FileType dialog, but that only affects what action is associated with "Open".
How can I get "Preview" to call "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer"?
Or, more generally speaking, how do I associate applications of choice for the various Explorer options?

It can be real simple and pretty complicate depending on the apllications and Windows version.

– SIMPLE, in general you just run the application you want Windows extention to associate with. Then go to the option to select the File Extensions, and it should replace the older setting to the specific aps you want it to associate with

– COMPLICATE, some newer Windows (Win7 for example) may have more than one aps to chose, and it gives the Primary and Secondary selection (or Recommended). But sometime it just won’t work the way it supposes to work, and the "Open With" and option to "Always opens with" won’t change the option either.

I had some problem fixed but don’t remember which works which doesn’t (or not 100% how I fixed the issues, or I tries many different techniques).
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Joe
Jan 20, 2010
"Greg N." wrote:

Kabuki wrote:

you can fix it by going to start>control panel>FOLDER options>file types tab>choose jpg from the list>choose advanced in the box you can edit the functions in there

Sorry, but that’s just another way to set the "open" function, not "preview".

"Open" or "Preview" is the word of choice, most people don’t use the exact same problem you have to know the difference between "Open" and "Preview"

Or in most if not all cases, you have to open something to SEE (Review). Some graphic aps may have option to display as thumbnail just like most Windows Explorers do (I say most because older Windows has option to display as thumbnail when Windows 7 doesn’t have thumbnail but Large Icons).
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Joe
Jan 20, 2010
"Greg N." wrote:

Kabuki wrote:

the part you are not getting is that VIEWER ==============IMPLIES it does not EDIT images it only previews them

It’s not always obvious to everybody involved who’s not getting what 🙂 🙂
In explorer’s file context menu, there is an option "open". You described how to make "open" invoke the Pic&Fax Viewer.
In [my] explorer’s file context menu, there is also an option "preview". I want to know how to make "preview" invoke the Pic&Fax Viewer.

Then use the normal Windows Explorer all normal Windows users use so it won’t have the "Preview" option to bother you.
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yodel_dodel
Jan 20, 2010
l v wrote:

You’d be better off posting to a Microsoft newsgroup vs this multi-platform application newsgroup.

Yes, obviously. Fair enough. Thanks!

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yodel_dodel
Jan 20, 2010
l v wrote:

Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types. Select your extension, click Advanced. …

That was the ticket, thank you. I got it fixed.

My problem was that I tried to change the file type entry for "JPG". However, this one is just a clone of file type "JPEG". Once I got JPEG fixed, JPG was OK as well.

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Photoshop User
Jan 20, 2010
"Greg N." wrote in message
l v wrote:

Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types. Select your extension, click Advanced. …

That was the ticket, thank you. I got it fixed.

My problem was that I tried to change the file type entry for "JPG". However, this one is just a clone of file type "JPEG". Once I got JPEG fixed, JPG was OK as well.

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your welcome

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