JPEG info in registry

[saturndude]

Hi all,

I'm relatively new to XP (XP SP2, Sun Java, AMD 2900 from Tiger Direct, 1 GB RAM), and I'm careful about installing new software. When I go into "my computer", I can view directories as a list, icons, etc. When I click on the icons / thumbnails of .jpeg files (just got digital camera), I get a dialog that says something like "no file information was found in the registry."

Because of file associations, MS Photo Editor starts up. It stands there in kind of a blank state, kind of like MS Paint before you create or open a drawing.

Can I build a .reg file and merge needed info into the registry, or will photo software add the entries (Canon ZoomBrowser bundled w/camera did not)? I can delete dupes okay (recent problems w/hard drive) with the thumbnails in 'my computer', but I'd like to put the registry info in there if possible.

Any ideas how/where I can get the info?

Edited October 24, 2006 by saturndude

[Hamins]

Hi saturndude,

Check this MsKB link out : -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...151&sd=tech

I hope this helps...

[saturndude]

THANK YOU!

I've worked with regedit before, but the process of changing registry keys microsoft described was a bit confusing.

And because of a quirk at install time, I have two administrator accounts. Admin and Administrator. I don't know if it is possible to delete one of them.

So I was not sure whether the changes made under one of them would be respected. XP can be intimidating. But I logged in as Mike and verified it works.

(I can't help wondering -- if I log in as "regular user" 99 percent of the time, like I am supposed to, how many more of this kind of "surprises" am I going to find?)

Thanks!

Edited November 17, 2006 by saturndude