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Windows Picture Viewer (Vista)
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Is there a way of stopping the Windows Picture Viewer (when you click on a picture and press PREVIEW) from opening large every time I open a picture within it?
I am trying to set the box up so it sits beside another program on Vista (Word) but when I open a new picture (right-click, preview) it always opens up full screen.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am trying to set the box up so it sits beside another program on Vista (Word) but when I open a new picture (right-click, preview) it always opens up full screen.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Know you've maybe tried this ,apology's ,but have no pic's to try (use vista as well).
Thanks for answering.
I'm beginning to think I imagined it. :eek:
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen %1
a quick search on my win 7 machine shows for example shows
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\jpegfile\shell\open]
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Gallery\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen %1
so what i'm basically saying is that it's not that the app is forgetting it's location it's that windows, in addition to handing the file to photoviewer is also giving it the option 'ImageView_Fullscreen' -
so when you double click a jpeg in addition to windows saying right with a jpeg i pass that file to this program for viewing, it is also passing the command line option to view full screen
i can think of a few things to try.
if you search the registry for ImageView_Fullscreen and modify the entries where you see it that should work.
it might work if you break the association with windows photoviewer by associating it with something else and then go back to windows photo viewer.
some kind of file types editor might work. actually i've just tried this and it's probably the easiest way i use this http://defaultprogramseditor.com/
go to file type settings
context menu
select the extension we are interested in eg .jpg
the top command in bold is the one we are interested in. called Preview for images
select it and click edit selected command
on the drop down on the right click the little arrow and select command line
remove ImageView_Fullscreen fromthe command line leaving the %1 bit
click next and continue.
oh dear.
right click an image
open with >
choose default program...
and select the windows thing. be sure to check 'always use this program'
I had to put the Fullscreen part back in. It just wouldn't let me open a preview even when I chose the default program with it.
Thanks flagpole.