As you can instantiate it on a form a mean more like programatic access to its PEMs. I know that I can run it like this. I found couple of examples on microsoft for using it from shell.

>You could open it as a separate entity this way:
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run /n rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen C:\irecovery\images\padlock.jpg

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>>Hi,
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>>I need a help on using shimgvw.dll (Windows Picture and Fax Viewer control). I can instantiate it in form, but dont knoiw how to use it. I tried searching for PEMs help on MSDN with no luck. Anyone worked with it.