Image+Viewer+Remove+the+default

Image Viewer Remove the default

If you dislike the default Image Viewer you can remove it.

However before you do perform this tweak, make sure that you have the alternative Image Viewer installed in you windows e.g. ACDsee, FireGraphics.

Because once you do this tweak without that application, you canʹt open and view your image anymore!

To remove the Windows default Image Viewer, first:‐

Go to :‐

Start Menu > Run In the box type without the quotes ʺcmdʺ

Then on the black screen ( Or whatever colour yours is after my tip on how to colour it) type after ensuring you are at the root i.e. C:\ > by typing cd\ after the current garbage.

Then type after the Chevron without the quotes ʺregsvr32 /u shimgvw.dllʺ

This will unregister this dll.

This will stop it from previewing any picture that it support, e.g. JPEG, Bitmap, GIF....

Want to go back to the default ? Easy

Do the above procedure only this time type ʺregsvr32 shimgvw.dllʺ after the Chevron