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In XP you should be able to go into My Computer Click on tools, folder options and find the file types and use the GUI to change the .bmp to open with whatever app you want
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In XP you should be able to go into My Computer Click on tools, folder options and find the file types and use the GUI to change the .bmp to open with whatever app you want

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Ms Paint is default program for opening BMP format files. Next best viewer is Windows Fax Viewer, you can change the default program to open such files with help of above two comments. I would support both options :)
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Ms Paint is default program for opening BMP format files. Next best viewer is Windows Fax Viewer, you can change the default program to open such files with help of above two comments. I would support both options :)

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I'd recommend installing Irfanview <a href="http://www.irfanview.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.irfanview.com/</a>&nbsp;plus the plugin pack. &nbsp;Totally free and that'll handle 99% of the graphics files you can throw at it.
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I'd recommend installing Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ [http://www.irfanview.com/] plus the plugin pack.  Totally free and that'll handle 99% of the graphics files you can throw at it.

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your question is answered by yourself : you need to open it, and it opens with MSPaint<br />
if you want to do something specific - tell us
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your question is answered by yourself : you need to open it, and it opens with MSPaint
if you want to do something specific - tell us

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Hi, when i try to open a .BMP file it keeps opening up in mircrosoft paint any way i can change this.<br />
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Thank you
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Hi, when i try to open a .BMP file it keeps opening up in mircrosoft paint any way i can change this.

Thank you

Need to open .bmp files in XP. Keeps opening up in Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.