PCWorks: PNG files & IE corrupted by "Fireworks"

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton]

I'm posting an update on this.  Got no replies (well, one,
but that didn't work) on this yet.  Macromedia "Fireworks"
has done some serious damage to this computer.  The orig
problem was fireworks had hijacked all .png files.  They
would ONLY open with Fireworks.  IE would no longer open and
view them as it should.

What I have tried:

I right clicked the image with the shift key down and
selected 'open with...' then IE, Fireworks still opened it.
I went to file associations, REMOVED the fireworks entry, set
.png to open with IE, then nothing at all happened then when
I clicked a png.  I then uninstalled fireworks, then an IE
browser window opened, but it was empty!  A totally blank
browser window.  Since a png is an image file, I copied the
ALL of the data from the file associations of a gif and jpeg,
applied that to png (which I have two of form some reason,
"png file" and "png image"), that didn't work either.
Evidently a png has different characteristics in the file
associations area than the gif and jpeg's do. ?  (found out
later it did not)  I ran the 'repair file associations' in
tweakui, same thing.  Jpeg and gif's are opening fine.  I
looked ALL OVER fireworks and there was no area to release
file associations and change them back to let IE open png
files again.

Then:
Someone sent a screen shot of their png file associations
settings, and that IS what I have set mine to....and still a
blank screen when opening them.  I HATE companies that do
this with their software, and it should be illegal. Same
thing happened to me a couple of years back with MGI
PhotoSuite. Reformat was the only thing that fixed the
problem.

Next:
I searched for PNG in the registry and found nothing in ref
to Mmedia, macromedia, fireworks, etc.  I did change one PNG
key entry to show what the gif and jpeg entries showed.  Then
I searched for fireworks and all I found was unrelated
entries (start menu, URL history, etc) things that would not
apply to this problem, but I deleted them anyway.  Now when I
click a png file, the page is still blank, but that IE
progress bar indicator at the bottom of the screen (that
shows the page load progress), it starts, and gets stuck and
remains halfway saying
"downloading picture file............".  Here is a screen
shot of that.
http://www.orpheuscomputing.com/PNGwindow.gif

Now, I just realized that my browser is destroyed while
online!!  I CAN click images on my HD and see them (except
for png of course) but I went to my website to see if I could
view gif and jpg's there and I cannot!!!  I can see then on a
webPAGE, but when I click a link for example to see a larger
gif or jpg image, I get a blank page!!  If I shut IE down,
THEN try a gif or jpeg FIRST, I CAN see them then, but if I
try to open a png FIRST, then try a gif or jpg after that, I
canNOT see them!!!  Macromedia WILL HEAR about this believe
me!!

So, any ideas on this one??  :-)
-Clint

http://orpheuscomputing.com
Clint Hamilton, Owner
Orpheus Audio/Video & Computing
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