Comments on: XP: Windows Stopped Using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer To Preview Pictures

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:43:45 +0000

Worked straight away for me without having to re-boot too, whoohooo, very happy!!

By: Smith

Smith — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:50:00 +0000

Worked straight away for me without having to re-boot!!

By: Youwinagain9

Youwinagain9 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:18:00 +0000

I did the Run: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll and received this message:
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll is NOT an executable file and no registion helper is registered for this file type.
So what do I do now to get back the Picture & Fax Viewer on my Windows XP?
Please reply to: youwinagain9@yahoo.ca (subject line: XP Help)

Thanks

By: breezy

breezy — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:47:00 +0000

how do i make my pictures automatically open with the windows picture and fax viewer?? right now they are automatically set to photosuite image…. and its annoying

By: Offtheshelflibrarian

Offtheshelflibrarian — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:40:00 +0000

THANK YOU!!! it worked perfectly after completing this step. Without rebooting.

By: Hi_jv05

Hi_jv05 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:50:00 +0000

nice..thank you so much!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:11:00 +0000

I tried getting the Windows Picture & Fax viewer up again with your suggestion (above) and this came up: “shimgvw” is not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type.”
So what to do now?

By: Ceebee71

Ceebee71 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:49:00 +0000

I have Windows XP, have lost Windows Picture & Fax Viewer. I did what you state to get it and this is what I get:
“shimgvw.dll is not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type”
So what do I do now?

Chuck (ceebee71@shaw.ca)

By: Carolee

Carolee — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:18:00 +0000

I tried this and I got a message that it succeeded. But when I tried to use the viewer I got the sound for device failed to connect. How do I download or get windows and fax viewer back and make it work. This seems to be the only way my new Canon PowerShot will download pictures. The camera downloads fine to other computers I have tried it on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:47:00 +0000

When task above was performed, a statment came back claiming that the module “shimgvw.dll” was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.

I was instructed to make sure that “shimgvw.dll” is a valid DLL or OCX file and to try again.

What did do wrong?