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re: File type trouble - help please
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 5:26 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by the ber
(68 messages posted)
i had many problems with MS Photo Editor in the past. i was able to solve some through
this forum by using "regedt32" to change permissions to allow full control of MS
Photo Editor. i don't remember the path to use to be able to change the permissions,
but it doesn't matter anymore. i use irfan view now, and you probably should, too.
with Photo Editor you can't even scroll through the multiple images in the directory.
plus irfan view is free.
On Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:19 pm, Laurie wrote:
>This is driving me crazy, and I can't find anything similar in the forum answers
>(unless my search terms were rubbish, of course).
>In Win 2000, I want to use MS Photo Editor to open GIF and JPEG files, so I go to
>'Tools/Folder Options/File Types in Windows Explorer (as an Administrator) and select
>.GIF, then Advanced. I change the description to 'GIF Image' and set up Open, Print
>etc to use Photo Editor (without using DDE - dunno if that even works with Photo
>Ed). I check it; it works fine. I then do the same for .JPG, calling this 'JPEG
Image'
>and setting up exactly the same Open, Print, etc.
>I check it; this works too, but I now see that .GIF files are called 'JPEG Image'!
>So I change .GIF back to 'GIF Image', and now .JPG files are called 'GIF Image'...
>Strangely, .JPEG files are OK with the same Photo Ed setup, and manage to preserve
>their 'JPEG Image' description.
>What is causing this GIF/JPG problem? After all, .INI, .TXT and .INF files are all
>set to open in Notepad, and they seem to be able to keep their individual descriptions.
>I imagine that the answer is a slap-forehead obvious one, but I can't figure it.
>Thanks in advance,
>Laurie
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