Viewing Image files in Windows ME

Just completed a clean install of ME. It's on a friend's system that's
fairly sluggish so am trying to keep things lean. Have installed Office
2000, and included Microsoft's Photo Editor. Now, when opening any image
file in Explorer (i.e. jpeg, gif, bmp etc.) it will open with Photo Editor.
This of course, takes a lot longer to load than does the standard "viewer"
that comes with ME. There is no option for "file associations" with Photo
Editor to change viewing back to the ME default. Uninstalling Photo Editor
leaves the image files with no associated program to open. Is there a simple
way or registry edit to get opening an image file back to ME's default image
viewer? Or do I have to manually configure each image file again through
Explorer's "Tools-Folder Options-File Types-Open With..."

Am a long time XP user, and have forgotten a lot of stuff about how ME
works.

Thanks in advance for any assistance given.

Alex (Australia)

"beefybear" wrote in
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Or do I
have to manually configure each image file again through Explorer's
"Tools-Folder Options-File Types-Open With..."



Yes

Hi,
See this article:
[272969] Description of the Image Preview Feature in Windows ME
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;272969
It should help you activate ME's Image Viewer.

Don
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MVP IE/OE
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Just completed a clean install of ME. It's on a friend's system that's
fairly sluggish so am trying to keep things lean. Have installed Office
2000, and included Microsoft's Photo Editor. Now, when opening any image
file in Explorer (i.e. jpeg, gif, bmp etc.) it will open with Photo
Editor.
This of course, takes a lot longer to load than does the standard "viewer"
that comes with ME. There is no option for "file associations" with Photo
Editor to change viewing back to the ME default. Uninstalling Photo Editor
leaves the image files with no associated program to open. Is there a
simple
way or registry edit to get opening an image file back to ME's default
image
viewer? Or do I have to manually configure each image file again through
Explorer's "Tools-Folder Options-File Types-Open With..."

Am a long time XP user, and have forgotten a lot of stuff about how ME
works.

Thanks in advance for any assistance given.

Alex (Australia)