Members 1tallbassguy Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 I tried to open some photos that a co-worker sent me. There was a message saying that the files were corrupted, and did not open. I tried again on one of them, and it opened using the Window picture viewer, but it looked horrible. It was a mess of colors and stuff. Then the blue screen of death came. This is a new laptop, less than 3 weeks old, and I cannot figure out what the problem is. How can I un-install part of the operatring sytem. Or, maybe this is a registry problem.... I tried changing default photo viewer, and others did okay. But I got the blue screen again. Man I am having no luck with electronic stuff these days. Any ideas on how to fix the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 I tried to open some photos that a co-worker sent me. There was a message saying that the files were corrupted, and did not open. I tried again on one of them, and it opened using the Window picture viewer, but it looked horrible. It was a mess of colors and stuff. Then the blue screen of death came. This is a new laptop, less than 3 weeks old, and I cannot figure out what the problem is. How can I un-install part of the operatring sytem. Or, maybe this is a registry problem.... I tried changing default photo viewer, and others did okay. But I got the blue screen again. Man I am having no luck with electronic stuff these days. Any ideas on how to fix the problem? maybe they are , bad CD burn maybe , don't know really , can you view regular jpegs and gifs and whatnot ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1tallbassguy Posted July 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 The corruption is apparently with the Windows Picture Viewer.I can open with Windows Photo Gallery, and it seems to be fine. How do I change the default viewer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Psilocybin Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 Thats what you get for looking up Shakira porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1tallbassguy Posted July 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 It was jpegs of snakes found in electrical switchgear.An electrician apparently opened the panel and was almost bitten by a nest of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mayhem Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 The corruption is apparently with the Windows Picture Viewer.I can open with Windows Photo Gallery, and it seems to be fine.How do I change the default viewer? right click - 'open with' then choose what you want to use. i'm not familiar with vista and hope to never be, but thats how you do it in XP:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FloydianAnimal Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 The corruption is apparently with the Windows Picture Viewer. I can open with Windows Photo Gallery, and it seems to be fine. How do I change the default viewer? right click on a picture, choose open with and then choose program. You can then choose what you want to be your default program and check "always open with this program" or something like that... at least that's how it works in XP anyway. LOL guy above me beat me to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluescout Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 Different apps open and deal with pics in different ways. It's possible that photo gallery can deal with corruption better. If the pic has corruption in it and Picture Viewer works fine with other images, I'd dump the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 I want to start a punk thrash metal band called BSOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allan grossman Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 I'll wait at least until SP1 to touch Vista. I have a hard time leaving XP Pro, which is a really stable OS. Anyone who says otherwise needs to quit playing with their Bonsai Buddy... Remember how the naysayers said "stay with Win2k cuz XP sux0rz"? Properly configured and maintained computers don't really have problems. The XP box sitting here at my feet (poor bastard's been fired from desktop duties and is now a lowly print server) hasn't had one bluescreen in six years. I blew it up a couple times back when XP was in beta and I was testing stuff for Microsoft Games but I'm not doing that gig any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 I'm on vista and perfectly happy with it. Same with XP Pro before it. Freakin mac fan boys. Did you get your default program stuff all setup? If right clicking and doing the "always open with ___" bit doesn't work, do this: Control panel (classic view) -> default programs -> associate a file type/protocol Change em and have at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 Oh and, you shouldn't be BSOD'ing so soon. Have you done all of the updates? If so, I would recommend a reinstall or at least a repair... Windows can crap itself over time, but less than a month? No ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HackedByChinese! Posted July 16, 2007 Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 Purely working on instinct here, but... If a file is corrupt, it is going to cause errors when something tries to open it. Have your co-worker resend the files and see if the problem persists. Or spend a {censored}-ton of money and get a Mac, which will well and truly solve the root problem here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted July 16, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 Man I am having no luck with electronic stuff these days. Any ideas on how to fix the problem? Look at the back and see if it's set for European operation??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted July 16, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 Remember how the naysayers said "stay with Win2k cuz XP sux0rz"? Properly configured and maintained computers don't really have problems. The XP box sitting here at my feet (poor bastard's been fired from desktop duties and is now a lowly print server) hasn't had one bluescreen in six years. I blew it up a couple times back when XP was in beta and I was testing stuff for Microsoft Games but I'm not doing that gig any more. +1 I've had office machines left on *forever*, never rebooted unless the power failed....no blue screens, no problems. These were W2K, and XP Pro, and one had NT 4.0 on it with no trouble for 8 years. It's probably still running fine (I don't work there any more). Those that could had automatic updates applied, the older machines were updated when I remembered. But let's not talk about my Win ME machine:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1tallbassguy Posted July 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 16, 2007 Look at the back and see if it's set for European operation??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members James Hart Posted July 17, 2007 Members Share Posted July 17, 2007 bought the old lady a vista laptop.... 3 days of hell brought me to tracking down all the XP drivers and loading my copy of XP pro on it. It runs like a champ now!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members davis1 Posted July 17, 2007 Members Share Posted July 17, 2007 Thats what you get for looking up Shakira porn. I learned that the hard way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crescent Seven Posted July 17, 2007 Members Share Posted July 17, 2007 But let's not talk about my Win ME machine:rolleyes: Man oh man what a piece of {censored} OS that was. When mine finally {censored} the bed, it took me over a year to buy a new computer, yet I was STILL happy that it died. C7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mogwix Posted July 17, 2007 Members Share Posted July 17, 2007 Laptops are a special kind of bitch because all the preloaded bull{censored} on them causes lots of problems. Once you disable a lot of the included {censored} (like norton antivirus, worst {censored} ever conceived) and get your own software on it, it'll be smooth. This laptop gave me all kinds of troubles due to retarded pre-installed mumbo-jumbo, but once I uninstalled most of it and got some things changed around, it hasn't given me one problem since. Well... except for the fact that it overheats and shuts off without warning when I'm running photoshop, but that isn't really an issue with windows. EDIT: ...did someone just mention WinME? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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