No, thats the first thing i tried, i prob should hav mentioned im on vista. When i right click on the image, Open is at the top of my right click menu instead of Preview, therefore when i double click on the image it just opens windows photo gallery and preview the image. I have an idea i may have to edit the registry to change the properties of my right click menu, I backed up my registry & i think i have to enter something in: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\Sh ellEx\" but i dont know exactly what to enter and where to enter it. I had a similar problem ages ago and i had to edit the registry, but i cant remember for the life of me what i did!! Plus i think i was on xp then x x