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XP Picture Viewer Fight

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by borginva

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This is actually my second time asking this question. The first one disappeared, but if you see it, sorry for the dups.
I have always used iView for viewing JPGs and other pics. Since XP, it wants to use it's own crappy viewer. I have tried to stopthis program from running, but it is a part of Windows Explorer. My settings in iView does not help, and it is set up as the default picture viewer, and in Windows, JPGs are default for iVIew.
How do I stop XP's picture viewer from coming up?

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by sithspawn

I had this same issue with ACDsee. When I installed the program it SAID it changed all the associations but I found the changes didn't work. If you go into the file associations tab it will SAY that ACDsee is set to open all graphics files but they still open with the Windows viewer.

In order to fix the issue I had to go in and REMOVE all associations. After that, I double clicked on the graphic files and the dialog came up asking what program I want to use to open it. I chose ACDsee and thechange actually worked.

The problem is one of two things. 1. Windows is protecting it's associations with it's own media viewer. OR 2. I had an older version of ACDsee and the method for associating files is a bit different under XP. In either case the automatic association the install performed simply did not work under XP. I have installed the program on most all versions of Windows and have only had the problem under XP.

-Sith

by borginva

Does not help. All my extensions are set up for iView, but MS Picture Viewer still pops up.

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