Windows Live Photo Gallery BETA - File type association issue

Symptom

When you choose Yes in the following dialog in Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta (Version 2.2, build 12.00.1299.1010), in a Windows XP system, the file types JPG / JPE / JPEG / PNG / TIFF / TIFF may not get associated correctly with Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Also, nothing may happen when you double-click the said file types from Windows Explorer. However, this feature may work correctly in a Windows Vista based computer.

Resolution

Until Microsoft fixes this problem in the future builds of Windows Live Photo Gallery, here is how to resolve the problem.

Login as Administrator or equivalent. Click Start, Run and type:

regsvr32 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\PhotoViewerShim.dll"

Press {ENTER}

Note that there is a space after the word regsvr32 in the above command-line.

You should now see the following message:

DllRegisterServer in C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\PhotoViewerShim.dll succeeded.

Now you should be able to open image file types using Windows Live Photo Gallery.