Registration means the procedure of configuring the program Image Viewer in a way that it can be executed via the Windows Explorer. In this case either a single path name or a single file name is passed to the program. If the passed item is a file and this file represents a supported picture type then this picture is immediately displayed.
In order to perform this registration the program Image Viewer has to be started with administration rights. To do this, just open the Windows Explorer, locate and select file ImageViewer.exe, right–click it and choose item Run as Administrator from the context menu. After confirming the User Account Control the program Image Viewer starts with administration rights.
As next open the program’s Settings dialog. Do this either by using the toolbar or simply by using shortcut CTRL+S. In the opened dialog box choose then item General, which can be found at the dialog’s left side, to preselect the needed settings page. Thereafter, find and click button [Register], which is now available at the dialog’s right pane. Please keep in mind; if the program is started without administration rights then a warning will appear.
Finally, just close the Settings dialog. It does not matter if button [OK] or [Cancel] is used. Additionally, the whole program should be closed because administration rights are no longer needed.
If a new instance of the Windows Explorer is started after this registration procedure, its context menu includes a new menu item called Open in Image Viewer…. But users should keep in mind that this menu item is only available if the context menu has been opened for a directory or for a file.
Right here it seems to be appropriated to have some additional and explaining words about the Windows Explorer extension. If the above described registration is done the very first time an additional dynamic link library (DLL) will be extracted from the program’s sources. Further, this new file is stored into the same directory where the program’s executable is located. This dynamic link library includes all necessary program code, which in fact is only used by the Windows Explorer, to be able to show an additional context menu item. Such a DLL is generally known as Shell Extension. Furthermore, depending on the underlying operating system either a 32–bit version or a 64–bit version is extracted from the program sources.
In addition please be aware, this DLL shouldn’t be deleted as long as program Image Viewer is registered as Windows Explorer extension. Otherwise the Windows Explorer may crash while trying to access a missing binary file. And this would be quite ugly.
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