How to run Photoviewer.dll in command line

Question

When I run the following code below in a command prompt (as administrator):

\"C:\\Program Files\\Windows Photo Viewer\\PhotoViewer.dll\" \"C:\\00012.tif\"


        

Answer 1

rundll32 "C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll" "C:\00012.tif"

For running a dll, there is rundll32.

Answer 2

It's not necessary to run PhotoViewer directly, let explorer do the work for you. As a bonus, it works with relative paths as far as I can tell.

C:\Users\alphaniner> explorer Documents\test.png

Answer 3

Windows 7

rundll32 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen path_to_image

• path_to_image must not be quoted!