SillyDog701

[wdueck]

I installed Opera roughly a year ago and found it very clumsy and unnecessarily complicated to use. I uninstalled it and figured that was the end of my opera ordeal.
No such luck. Every time I'm sent an attachemnt such as JPG, I get a dialogue box stating that "windows cannot find opera.exe. This program is needed for opening files of type Image."
When IE was installed, I did not have this problem.

My OS is W2000 and I browse with Mozilla Firefox.

Thanks to anyone out there with helpful suggestions!

William

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[Don_HH2K]

You might need to set the default handler for JPEG files, perhaps Firefox didn't do it correctly when you set it as your default browser. Go Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Folder Options -> File Types. Scroll down to the JPG (or JPEG, depending on which one you're having trouble with) extension, click the Advanced button, select the Open action, then Edit, and point the dialog here to the location of the Firefox EXE (in your Firefox install folder, in most common cases c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe), click OK to both dialogs and exit Folder Options. Now try opening a JPG file again and see what happens. If not successful, try restarting your computer (which may be necessary for this to work).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[Fulvio]

IMHO it is a bad idea to set a browser as default for any image file. This must have been done with Opera, and even after uninstalling the preferences are to open the files with Opera. I am sure that the same can be done with FF, but I would not do it. I always leave the handling of filess to outside software, which is built for the purpose. It all depends on the software. May be a plugin .dll may be needed, but setting the file preference should be done in My computer|Tools| Folder Options|File Types. that way the same problem will not reoccur if Firefox is removed. It may work the way Don describes, but an Image Viewer should selected as default files such as .jpeg, .gif and .bmp.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 (ax)