Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Question

Someone sent me a picture through an e-mail today.  I went to click on the picture and a screen came up with the heading:  WINDOWS'S PICTURE AND FAX VIEWER.  I have never seen this before.    Questions:   (1) How do I get to this on my computer? (2) This seems to have every picture saved that I have ever looked at on different web pages for a long time.  How do you delete all these?  I saw a delete key, but it looks like you had to do each one seperately.   Thanks,   drmeh

Denny Denham · Answer

drmeh,

Go to Start|Search|All Files and Folders and look for a file by the name of one of the images you received in the email. When you examine the folder containing that image you will probably find many more. I suspect the folder will be the My Recent Documents folder in Documents and Settings\ Your account.

Denny Denham · Answer

drmeh,

I don't understand the question. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is a part of Windows XP and is the default application for opening graphics files. It does not store your graphics images, they are stored elsewhere on your computer and if you wish to delete them you must do so from those locations, either one at a time of by selecting multiple files by clicking on them while holding down the Ctrl key then right-clicking and selecting Delete from the context menu.

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is set up so that you can view all the images in a folder, so wherever the picture you received in email is located any other image file in that folder can be shown in the application by clicking the left and right arrows under the image.

drmeh · Answer

Thanks for your reply.  All I can tell you is when I go to a specific e-mail that I received today which had pictures about the TSUNAMI, I clicked on one of the files listed as .jpg.  When I did this it took me to a page that said at the top WINDOWS PUCTURE AND FAX VIEWER.  When I start to click the arrows at the bottom and continued to do so, everything I have looked at on the Web, from weather maps to pictures on other websites show up.  I have never seen this before and don't know where to find them.   I never saved any of these pictures.  They were a one time shot and I would go on to another website.   Thanks,   drmeh

drmeh · Answer

I appreciate your note.  Do you have a good answer for my issue?   drmeh

JRosenfeld · Answer

Sorry, wrong suggestion. Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 01-04-200509:08 PM Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 01-04-2005 09:08 PM

Denny Denham · Answer

drmeh,

If you choose to not locate and delete all the graphics, you can avoid seeing them again by setting a different application as the default for opening graphics files. Right-click a graphics file in Windows Explorer and select "Open with" from the context menu. Click the "Choose program" link then on the dialog that opens select an application different from Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and check the box to tell Windows to always use that application to open that file type. Microsoft Paint can open .jpg, .gif, and .bmp files. Internet Explorer can also open .jpg and .gif.

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Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

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