Windows Wonderful Picture and Fax Viewer

[keithl@isg]

Please help me find the program called when you use Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. I want to call it from another application and can't find where windows has stuck it. It would help though if I knew what they were calling it. Thanks much for help with what I think should be obvious but for some reason I am missing it problem.

[sao95]

right click on the file you want to open with it, go to properties, change open up with setting to windows picture and fax viewer

[rpertusio]

This Picture & Fax viewer is not an actual '.exe' file. It is contained inside a .DLL file. You can 'call' this by:

rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

If you drop the "%1" from the command, it will open the viewer without loading a picture. (Furthermore, replace %1 with a file name such as "dog.jpg" and it will display it.)

- rp