What do you mean, "I can not open jpg files with Microsoft Photo Editor"? Any errors?

Can you right_click on the file in the Windows explorer and see what is the application associated with jpg file? Can you CHANGE the application associated with this file?

>I just noticed yesterday that I can not open jpg files with Microsoft Photo Editor, which has been my default jpg viewer for a while and which I like. The main suspect is MS Office 2007 Beta, but it is also possible that the cause is a Windows security update. I tried reinstalling it but no luck. No luck either with deinstalling Access 2007 (did this because of a comment found via google that Access 2003 affected Microsoft Photo Editor. Apparently it was possible to reinstall then. The comment went on that Microsoft Photo Editor apparently has an internal jpg viewer. Perhaps that is considered a security risk?)
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>Any ideas?
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>I like Microsoft Photo Editor because with it you can view several pictures in a zip file with a single object in the Windows task bar. Some other applications fill the task bar with different instances. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, which works nicely, requires that photos be extracted to a real folder first.
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>TIA,
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>Alex