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Fixing a REALLY slow Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
By cbarrett | March 20, 2008
I was having trouble with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer taking upwards of 1 minute to open. I noticed that this was only happening when I tried to open an image from the Desktop. I googled around a bit, but didn’t really find anything concrete (must have been my excellent search skills). I tried running the Desktop Cleanup tool and amazingly, it resolved the problem. I did some more searching and I discovered that dead links to programs/shortcuts in the same directory as the image, will cause the Viewer to hang until it times out on that link. Simply removing the dead shortcut will resolve the problem.
Topics: Windows | 6 Comments »
June 7th, 2008 at 5:07 am
LOL unbelievable! It looks like a magic trick i just perform when i deleted bad desktop icon and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer start to work normal again.
Thanks
June 19th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Glad you found this post useful.
November 9th, 2008 at 2:03 am
OMFG it’s true, I had a network link and whenever it’s down it happens
November 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
wow, it really works! i had a offline network link too!
December 29th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Weird! It worked for me too. I had a link to planetphotoshop.com on the desktop which takes a long time to load, so I deleted it. Everything seems spiffy right now. Thanks!
October 27th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
It worked for me too !