Picasa has hijacked my scanner button


  1. y0himba
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    Picasa has hijacked my scanner button


    Now here is a question: Picasa has hijacked my scanner button. Whenever I press the button on my scanner, it opens Picasa. I would like it to open Irfanview or my scanner's default application. I have tried the autoplay options, I have reset them to defaults. I have uninstalled/reinstalled Picasa. I have checked with Canon and there is nothing in the scanner's software that will allow me to configure it. There used to be a scanners and cameras applet in control panel, but it is no more with Windows 7. The only way to get my scanner's button back is to uninstall Picasa, which I don't want to do.

    Any ideas?
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  3. Jacee
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
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    Is this how you've set your default viewer?
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  4. y0himba
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    I have it set to view animated GIFs only. I like Windows viewer just fine, but it doesn't do animated GIFs. I would love to specify the application for my scanner button press without messing up my file associations.
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  6. boofke
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    Win7 32bit
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    Picasa Scanner Button Problem


    I had the same problem. The following helped:

    Open Registry Editor, search for "STIProxyEvent". There you should find keys for your scanner and one for Picasa. Delete the Picasa related key. I found 2 settings which I deleted, now Canon Tool Box is directly opened when scanner buttons are pushed. I have no idea if I destroyed something else, so take my advice at your own risk.

    These are the keys I deleted (German Version):


    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\StillImage\Events\STIProxyEvent\{AF3EE90E-B809-468A-A9D4-ADFCA8A1978D}]
    "Name"="Picasa3"
    "Desc"="Bilder auf den Compute"
    "Icon"="C:\\Program Files\\Googl"
    "Cmdline"="C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Picasa3\\Picasa3.exe /StiDevice:%1 /StiEvent:%2"

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\StillImage\Events\STIProxyEvent\{AF3EE90E-B809-468A-A9D4-ADFCA8A1978D}]
    "Name"="Picasa3"
    "Desc"="Bilder auf den Compute"
    "Icon"="C:\\Program Files\\Googl"
    "Cmdline"="C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Picasa3\\Picasa3.exe /StiDevice:%1 /StiEvent:%2"

    Regards

    Boofke
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  7. y0himba
    Posts : 120
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    Exactly what I needed!
    Danke!
    Danke sehr!
    Herzlichen Dank!
    Tausend Dank!
    Danke schön!
    Danke vielmals!
    Recht schönen Dank!
    Ich danke Ihnen!
    Ich bin sehr dankbar!
    Haben Sie vielen Dank!
    Vielen Dank!
    Mit tiefer Dankbarkeit!
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  8. wkailey
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    Windows 7 Ultimate
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    Thank you so much for posting this. I have the exact same problem. It is infuriating. I used the Devices and Printers in Control Panel, Events tab, to set the Start button on the Canon MF4100 printer to the MF Toolbox 4.9 (approrpriately named , the app that came with the scanner (such as it is, I can make it do what I want, albeit with difficulty but less difficulty than using Picasa for this purpose). Well, what do you know? It doesn't take affect, and then if I do a restart, voila! Picasa has grabbed the Start button again. How obnoxious this is! Quoth Google: don't be evil(?!)
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