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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> I know this is not list-related but we need a quick fix.  We deleted IE
> from WIn98SE to save space, and then discovered Win98 needs it to view the
> photos we finally got onto the computer (downloaded to Bl3 on laptop via
> pcmcia adaptor when the parport adaptor would not work on this desktop),
> then parallel cable transfer).  How do we set Windows to use a different
> viewer?  Opera lets you set it as default but it keeps crashing in
> Preferences.  We had to download Firefox to use this webmail but I can't
> find a way to set it as default image viewer.  We have DOS pictview and
> cshow - but I forgot how to change default viewer.  We need a QUICK fix as
> we are leaving yesterday morning, in theory.

The way to change the default app associated with a file extension in 
Windows is to open Windows Explorer (the file mgr) and go to (I believe) 
View > Options and then select the "File Types" tab. There will be a list 
of file extensions there and a way to add any that are not already listed. 
You can also modify the default programs for dealing with file extensions. 
Btw, a web browser makes a _very poor_ image viewer. It will only display 
the image at the resolution the image was taken at which, if it's larger 
than the resolution on the person's computer can result in a confusing 
display (they might be looking at a corner of the image only, then needing 
to scroll around to see the whole thing--not very workable). There are 
Freeware and even open source image viewers for Windows. Irfanview comes 
to mind. I'd recommend downloading one of those for image viewing for that 
person. 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24099&package_id=47692&release_id=282527
That looks like imagemagick for Windows. http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ is 
a good site for finding open source progs for Windows.

James