Thank you for the advice.

However, before I try your solution, have you any idea why this situation
would have occured in the first place?

Karl

"Donald Anadell" <danadell@nospamersmikrotec.com> wrote in message
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> "kandinsky63" <rharaburda@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>i have already done this.
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>> I have created hyperlinks to other file types i.e.
>> .doc, .tiff , .xls etc. and they all open up with the default app and not
>> with IE.
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>> My default image editor opens every image file from the hyperlink expect
>> for
>> jpeg's - this is the curious bit.
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> I was able to reproduce your issue here with a hyperlinnk to a local jpg
> file in an Excel Worksheet. Clicking on the link opened the file in IE8
> instead of the Default image viewer(here that would be Irfanview). To get
> around this issue here required doing a registry tweak at the following
> Registry Key:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\9.0\C ommon\Internet
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> Adding a new DWORD Name value at that Key = ForceShellExecute
> and adding a new DATA VALUE = 1
>
> did the trick for me, now when clicking on a hyperlink to a jpg file in an
> Excel Worksheet it opens the file in the default viewer instead of IE8.
>
> See the following reference site for this tweak:
> http://mobile.vnunet.com/personal-co...ive-hyperlinks
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> As always, be sure to back up your Registry before making any changes.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Donald Anadell
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>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Right-click on a JPEG or JPG file | Open with | Select desired
>>> application & check the "Always open with..." box.
>>> --
>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>>>
>>> kandinsky63 wrote:
>>>> why does IE7 open a hyperlink to a jpeg/jpg image in excel 97/2000
>>>> when
>>>> the default image editor is windows picture and fax viewer?
>>>
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