Solved Windows 7 Gif Viewer Works perfectly

[goofwear]

I got the windows picture and fax viewer to work and display ANIMATED gifs on vista and Windows 7 please look here Windows 7 Gif viewer and for those leery of clicking on a new members link

http://www.goofwear.com/windows/

This works on 32 and 64 bit OS. Windows 7 Gif viewer I have used this on a win7 64bit desktop and a windows vista 32bit laptop, windows 7 64bit laptop. If you like it Please spread the world and a link to Windows 7 Gif viewer ... Please read the instruction on the page when installing. and after you install it and windows complains about it might not have installed right, just hit cancel.

Also here is my video

 

[derekimo]

Thanks buddy, works great for me.

 

[Slendermang]

Sorry for bump, is this legit?

 

[goofwear]

Yes this is legit, totally understandable it the Internet its hard to always trust people.

 

[Z0nker]

Doesn't seem to work on my 64 bit build.
I get a dllrun pop up error.
Also, it says at the start of installing viewer to right click rundll.exe and set compatibility to XP SP2 or 3 and all I got after right click was "compatibility troubleshoot" as an option.

 

[goofwear]

Ok I just checked my compatibility on my windows 7 64bit and on Windows 7 you need to set it to vista. That should fix it. if not right click the installer and click run as admin. there is a registry key that needs to be install and you pc or antivirus may not let it install. If that doesent not work install this registry key. It is the same on in my installer.

Also did you se this here Index of ./downloads/64bit/

you can use this for the 64bit that way windows does not complain and say are you sure you want to run this program every time you click a pitcher.

 

[Z0nker]

Yes I did see that in your index but since it was "rundll.exe" I wasn't sure what to do with it.
I don't see this program in the start menu or add remove programs. What's with that?
Set what to Vista? How is this done?
How do I run the "gif.reg"?

 

[Z0nker]

I guess your done with assisting on this thread?

 

[goofwear]

No sorry about that I still post. Its just I never vist or log in here cause no one ever posts. I just logged in casue I got an email saying. Some one posted. The reason it dosent show up in the programfolder or start menus is because the simple installer I used exctracts th 4 files to the c drive and then runs a batch file to install the registey key and then deletes the batch file and registry key when finished. I chose the c drive because the registry file needs to the excat location of the exe and dll file. ... the gif.reg file is ran automaticly after you install it. If not the us 7zip and extract the install file and then run the reg file by double clicking it. Hope that helps if not let me know.

 

[derekimo]

I just got that error too, but after going to C, right clicking on the rundll32.exe, compatibility tab, change it to Vista, apply.

I ran the .reg file too.

It now works for me on my Seven Pro 64 SP1.

 

[goofwear]

yeah that's what I thought I said here 32 bit needs tho be set to xp sp3 and 64 bit needs vista . in the screen shots

http://www.goofwear.com/windows/

 

[derekimo]

yeah that's what I thought I said here 32 bit needs tho be set to xp sp3 and 64 bit needs vista . in the screen shots

http://www.goofwear.com/windows/

Sometimes screenshots and step by step instructions help, just trying help you out.

 

[goofwear]

No problem. I figured the YouTube video and the pics on my website were enough, I tried to make it as simple as possible. I'm just glade its helping every one.

 

[dc7391]

This worked as promised but is there a way to see the animation when just looking in an explore window and not have to open the gif?

 

[YoukaiChoGonou]

Ok, this may sound dumb, but I have a question that's frustrating me. How do I get JPGs, BMPs, and PNGs set to be opened by this viewer as default? It flat out will NOT appear on the default list and the file rundll32.exe won't add to the list if you manually brows for it. I want to completely do away with the new dumb viewer that came with Seven, so I would very much like to set all of my photo files to open with this Photo and Fax Viewer replica when clicked.
Thank you in advance,
Kai

 

[goofwear]

This worked as promised but is there a way to see the animation when just looking in an explore window and not have to open the gif?

You mean see a thumbnail of it , but it wont be an animated thumbnail.. if that's all your looking for then this will show you how to enable thumb nails http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11738-thumbnail-previews-enable-disable.html

 

[goofwear]

@YoukaiChoGonou if you still have my windows 7 gif installer,. then use 7zip and extract the installer and then find gig.reg and right click and edit it
replace gif and GIF with the extension like png and PNG then when all done save as something like png.reg and then double click it and install the registry key. and then keep doing that for all the extensions you want., I'm not sure there might be and easier way do do it ill look into it

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.GIF]
@="GIFImage.Document"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.GIF]
@="GIFImage.Document"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document]
"EditFlags"=dword:00010000
"FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,\
00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,\
32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,69,00,6d,00,67,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,2c,00,2d,00,33,00,30,00,36,00,00,00
"ImageOptionFlags"=dword:00000000
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000008
@="GIF Image"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\DefaultIcon]
@="shimgvw.dll,4"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\shell\open]
"MuiVerb"="@shimgvw.dll,-550"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\rundll32.exe C:\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\shell\open\DropTarget]
"Clsid"="{E84FDA7C-1D6A-45F6-B725-CB260C236066}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\shell\printto]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GIFImage.Document\shell\printto\command]
@="C:\\rundll32.exe C:\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo /pt \"%1\" \"%2\" \"%3\" \"%4\""

 

[YoukaiChoGonou]

Thank you, kindly! That did just the trick! I can't thank you enough for this program and the assistance.

 

[dc7391]

This worked as promised but is there a way to see the animation when just looking in an explore window and not have to open the gif?

You mean see a thumbnail of it , but it wont be an animated thumbnail.. if that's all your looking for then this will show you how to enable thumb nails http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11738-thumbnail-previews-enable-disable.html

No i can see the thumbnails just fine, just wanted to see if there was a way to have the animation visible in thumbnail view.

 

[goofwear]

@ YoukaiChoGonou Your very welcome Im glad It helped you. If you guys want to help too you can post positive comments on the you tube video some people think its fake or a virus. silly norton users.

@ dc7391 I can try and work on that or try and hack something together but in the mean time there's not much I can do, But will do my best

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