[Gibletpie]

I HATE Image Preview, and this is the only way I've found to get rid of it.

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}shellex

and delete the subkey:

MayChangeDefaultMenu

Reboot. Images will now open in your default viewer by double-clicking. You can still right-click and select PREVIEW if you want to open it in Image Preview.

If you want to get rid of the PREVIEW menu option entirely, you can go to


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}InProcServer32

and for the (Default) Value, delete the data so it is empty, "".

Reboot. No more "Preview" option on right-click.

[Aaron]

Kewl! Now I can set ACDSee 3.1 as my default viewer!

[Gibletpie]

Exactly! Now if I could just get CD Architect to see my burner under XP, I'd be happy...

[jrichard326]

Why not just change the file association??????

[Aaron]

[quote:a69066f6e2="jrichard326"]
Why not just change the file association?????? [/quote:a69066f6e2]

That's a pain to do one-by-one, there's so many image format types.

This reg fix is done once and is very simple. I could even make a reg file to make the changes on one click.

[InTrIgue]

This is a good one! that preview was not cool

Now I can use my acdsee thank good

[jrichard326]

REMOVE image preview

Open regedit and delete the key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociationsimageShellExContextMenuHandlersShellImagePreview