Tips

Viewing Images in Windows XP

From Windows Client Update Newsletter August 18, 2006

Tip–Viewing Images in Windows XP

If you’ve been unable to view images with Windows XP’s Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and you can’t see thumbnails when you’re browsing folders that contain images, it’s because the OS has lost the proper registration of the Shimgvw.dll file. To fix this problem, do the following:

  1. Close all Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) windows.
  2. Click Start, Run.
  3. In the Run dialog box, type 
    regsvr32 /s %systemroot%\system32\shimgvw.dll
  4. Click OK.

At this point, you should be able to view thumbnails properly. To check that the viewer works correctly, do the following:

  1. Open a folder that contains images.
  2. Right-click an image.
  3. Select Preview from the context menu.

–contributed by David Chernicoff