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I just installed the Visio 2010 viewer.
How do I now make this viewer to open if I double click a VSD files? Every time I do so only my web browser (Opera) is started - but it is not associated with the VSD file extension.
I tried to manually assign VSD files to the viewer but I wasn't able to find the viewer executable file.
Robert
Posted 2011-10-19T17:13:30.540
Reputation: 4 857
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I found a solution:
The problem is that the registry entries are incorrectly set by the Visio Viewer installer.
You have to delete the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisioViewer.Viewer\shell\open\ddeexec
Then you have to add "%1" to the value of
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisioViewer.Viewer\shell\open\command
so that it looks as follows:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome "%1"
Robert
Posted 2011-10-19T17:13:30.540
Reputation: 4 857
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The site to which you linked says the viewer only works in Internet Explorer 5 through 8.
Visio Viewer is implemented as an ActiveX control that loads and renders Visio drawings inside Internet Explorer.
This download works with the following program: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7, or 8.
Patrick Seymour
Posted 2011-10-19T17:13:30.540
Reputation: 7 662
If I associate VSD files with IE then Opera comes up as it is my default web browser. Stupid IE. If I start iexplore.exe from command line with the VSD as parameter it works!? – Robert – 2011-10-19T17:25:44.177
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Make sure that the "Microsfot Visio Document" add-on is not disabled in Internet Explorer. You can see the installed add-ons in Internet Explorer, under:
Tools button (upper right hand corner) > Internet Options > Programs tab > "manage add-ons" button
user3400306
Posted 2011-10-19T17:13:30.540
Reputation: 9
there is no add-on even if it was installed :( – KansaiRobot – 2017-11-09T04:23:20.547
Despite the name, Visio 2010 viewer, is not a stand-alone application, but it is a plug-in to Internet Explorer. As such it does not really work well. For instance, for printing properly, there is often no other way than to zoom, take a screenshot, crop (in, say, Paint) and print out through some other program, say Word. – Peter Mortensen – 2013-04-19T11:18:29.040