[Ham-Computers] Problem with assigned program (default) for opening files

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

About 8 months ago I bought a new Gateway laptop to replace the one I've had 
since early in this Century. Never one to get in a hurry about anything, I 
finally yesterday brought it up and transferred programs and data to it. It runs 
XP. Everything else here runs W2K, and I have no experience with XP. I pretty 
much beat it into submission by telling Microsoft to bugger off several times. 
And in most cases, the software I installed took over opening file types 
properly. But I'm having a problem with TIF's. The default in XP is that TIF's, 
JPG's and several other graphic files are opened by Windows Picture and Fax 
Viewer.

I opened a JPG and confirmed that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer was what 
opened it.  I installed IrfanView, which took over JPG's OK. I installed another 
program which took over DWG's OK. I installed Imaging V2.8 (distant descendant 
of Wang then Kodak Image that shipped with NT and W2K) which should have 
taken over TIF's. But it didn't. When I start Windows Explorer and double-click a 
TIF, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer sits there and grinds and grinds and 
finally opens the file. When I start Explorer and go to Folder Options/File Types 
and scroll down to TIF and TIFF, it says that Image Preview (IMGPRV.EXE) is the 
program that should open them. But it doesn't. If I explicitly start 
IMGPRV.exe and then navigate to and open a TIF, that works OK. But that's a momumental 
PITA.

Any suggestions? Other than going back to W2K?


Robert Downs - Houston
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