Roxio takes over preview?

[adrienne50]

I've found and replaced the default program to view my photos (Roxio took over almost immediately when I clicked the wrong button to modify Roxio programs to stop using so much of my CPU when not even open). I've since told Zone Alarm to stop letting Roxio phone home every 2 minutes, and reset my MSconfig to keep Roxio from doing the slightest unrequested thing, including watching my files! What a heck?

 

Anyway, things are almost back to normal. But the problem of Roxio coming up when I make the mistake of clicking on the bigger preview image (as opposed to the actual photo file) when in filmstrip mode still is unresolved. What can I do to fix this? I liked the old versions of Roxio that stayed where you put them until called upon!!!!

 

Thanks, and if anyone is near the Roxio programmers, please give them a swift kick in the butt for me. The old Roxio versions didn't try to take over your whole bleeding computer or take so much time to figure out to make them behave. Like, NONE. GRRRRRR.

 

Adrienne

[grandpabruce]

I've found and replaced the default program to view my photos (Roxio took over almost immediately when I clicked the wrong button to modify Roxio programs to stop using so much of my CPU when not even open). I've since told Zone Alarm to stop letting Roxio phone home every 2 minutes, and reset my MSconfig to keep Roxio from doing the slightest unrequested thing, including watching my files! What a heck?

 

Anyway, things are almost back to normal. But the problem of Roxio coming up when I make the mistake of clicking on the bigger preview image (as opposed to the actual photo file) when in filmstrip mode still is unresolved. What can I do to fix this? I liked the old versions of Roxio that stayed where you put them until called upon!!!!

 

Thanks, and if anyone is near the Roxio programmers, please give them a swift kick in the butt for me. The old Roxio versions didn't try to take over your whole bleeding computer or take so much time to figure out to make them behave. Like, NONE. GRRRRRR.

 

Adrienne

 

What program are you using, and BTW, what the heck are you talking about? Tell the program you are using to be the default program to view whatever you are viewing.

[adrienne50]

What program are you using, and BTW, what the heck are you talking about? Tell the program you are using to be the default program to view whatever you are viewing.

 

Media Creator 9

[grandpabruce]

Media Creator 9

 

Hopefully, someone else can help you. You aren't making any sense to me, or else, I haven't read your post correctly.

 

Where are you looking at filmstrip mode? In My Computer? Then, as Daithi said below, whatever file type you want to open with another program, you have to associate it with that program.

[gi7omy]

To me it sounds very like a file association problem - right click on the offending file, go to 'Open with', select the program you want to use and tick the box saying 'Always open with this program'

[adrienne50]

Thank you for trying, and sorry if I wasn't clear.

 

I have jpegs that I open in a folders in filmstrip mode. They show a thumbnail, and above it a larger version of the selected file. Often, I right click on a file to use "preview" mode so I can scroll in to look more closely at certain portions of the picture. I'm a painter and use photos to augment my work outdoors or on location.

 

When I right-click on a file and select "preview", it opens with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (WPFV). If I make a mistake and right-click on the larger image in the filmstrip folder, however, it opens with PhotoSuite 9 and I cannot alter that. In "properties" it says that WPFV is the designated program to open that file with, but it does not. When I go into "change", I see that Photosuite 9 is selected. I can select WPFV, but it still opens with Photosuite 9. The box that one would check to designate as the program to open that kind of file is grayed out. So essentially Photosuite 9 has hijacked the main image generated in my filmstrip folders. (I got here by mistakenly modifying Roxio and installing (instead of making unavailable) something that made every jpeg I own a Roxio file, when I was just trying to get Roxio to stop watching my files. I was able to change the default opening program for my jpegs, and undo what I had done, but not this part of it. ) Is there somewhere else I can look to change this? I use the filmstrip method all the time and make the mistake of choosing the main image enough that it is very annoying.

 

Later note: I finally uninstalled Photosuite 9 because it is just too irritating. In addition, due to crowding my CPU space (slowing down my computer even thought the program isn't supposed to be running anything) and wanting to access the internet all the time, I uninstalled Roxmedia and Upnp related functions. This essentially means those programs are unusable to me. What in the world am I paying for? I might be a novice to roxio, but not to computers. The only program I've ever paid money for that caused this many problems was Norton 7 - and this is much worse due to how many different ways it impedes daily normal computer use. Roxio was once a great program. Sadly, no more.

 

Sigh, and now I have some dll errors I found in my event viewer. If it doesn't quit that on next start up, I may just have to unistall the whole thing.

 

Well, anyway, if anyone has an answer for the folder problem, I'd appreciate it.

 

 

Thanks,

Adrienne