How can Windows Picture and Fax Viewer - I specify the editing program?

I set things up so that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is the default program when I opened a variety of types of image files, which allowed me to get a quick overview without waiting for a program to load full image editing. What I need to be able to do is to specify which program is then launched by WP & FV when I click on the bottom right of the screen edit button - one with text that says "closes this program and opens the image in edit (Ctrl + E).

If I click with the right mouse button and select 'Open with' and then I can select in the usual list of possible programs, but what I want is to set a default value for each file type so that a left click of the button automatically opens the appropriate program. I tried the "program to choose...". "and"Always use the selected program to open this type of file"route after a right-click on the button, but what is happening is that the selected program then becomes the global default and circumvents WP & FV altogether.

Any ideas?

I set things up so that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is the default program when I opened a variety of types of image files, which allowed me to get a quick overview without waiting for a program to load full image editing. What I need to be able to do is to specify which program is then launched by WP & FV when I click on the bottom right of the screen edit button - one with text that says "closes this program and opens the image in edit (Ctrl + E).

If I click with the right mouse button and select 'Open with' and then I can select in the usual list of possible programs, but what I want is to set a default value for each file type so that a left click of the button automatically opens the appropriate program. I tried the "program to choose...". "and"Always use the selected program to open this type of file"route after a right-click on the button, but what is happening is that the selected program then becomes the global default and circumvents WP & FV altogether.

Any ideas?

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See the following article:

Change the default image editor
application, called from Windows
Picture and Fax Viewer
http://WindowsXP.MVPs.org/imgeditor.htm
(download the free utility - Imgeditor.zip)

More information:

How to open your choice of image editors when
by clicking on the button Edit in the Windows image
and Fax Viewer screen.

Proceed with caution and at your own risk *.

(FWIW... it's always a good idea to create a system)
Restore point before editing the registry)

OK... go to... Start / run and type... "' regedit ' without
the quotes. Then click on... OK... or press... Come in.

In the registry... Editor drill down to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

In the data column, you should see:

"% systemroot%\system32\mspaint.exe" "%1".

(where you see * mspaint * in the example... you'll be)
See your current default)

Replace the key with the path to the program that will be
being your default image editor. I tried to Picture It! 7 sort
Here's what I changed to.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Picture It! 7\pip.exe"'%1 '.

Now, my images still open in the picture and Fax Viewer
But if I left, click on the button Edit... Picture It! 7 opens.

To replace the string...

'Default' to select, left click.

Reach... Edit / change...

In the "Edit String" field...

Copy / paste the path to your program choice:

"C:\Program Files\? \???. "exe" '%1'

Left click... Ok.

Now, your images will always open in the picture and Fax
Viewer, but if you left click on Edit button... your image
editing program opens...

Good luck.

Volunteer - MS - MVP - Digital Media Experience J - Notice_This is not tech support_I'm volunteer - Solutions that work for me may not work for you - * proceed at your own risk *.

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