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Yes Russ - you are correct. I now located the MS Office Document Imaging App
and all is back to normal.
Many thanks,
Pud.
"Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook]" wrote:
> You seem to be getting confused between the MS Picture and Fax Viewer
> (the default viewer for Windows XP Fax) and the Microsoft Office
> Document Imaging application (which replaces the MS Picture and Fax
> viewer if you install Office 2003). I would suspect that somewhere along
> the line, you installed Office 2003 and didn't tell us that part.
>
> Russ Valentine
> [MVP-Outlook]
>
> akpud wrote:
> > Hi Hal - I've been reading the posts because I have had the same issue - and
> > have fixed it using your suggestion - thanks!
> >
> > BUT - what many of the puzzled folks out there are saying (me included) is
> > that we used to have (until this morning, in my case) a different fax viewer
> > (the MS Fax Console). It is a far better viewer than MS Picture and Fax
> > Viewer because it has a pane running down the left side which shows all of
> > the fax pages while the main screen on the right shows the active page. This
> > is the viewer we are all asking about. Is there any way to associate tif
> > files with this other viewer. I cannot locate it anywhere.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> > Pud
> >
> >
> > "Hal Hostetler [MVP DTS]" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The file association for .tif files has been set to something other than the
> >>Picture and Fax Viewer. In most cases, the file association for .tif files
> >>should be:
> >>
> >>"rundll32.exe <drive>:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1"
> >>
> >>Hal
> >>--
> >>Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
> >>Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-DTS -- WA7BGX
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> >>
> >>"Tim Rose" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >>news:019801c4a0c6$3015cb80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >>
> >>>When I try to view a newly received fax in windows fax
> >>>console, I get an error message that says the operating
> >>>system does not have a default viewer for .tiff files.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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