How can I invoke PhotoViewer within TC internal association?

[ktp]

Hello,

The Windows PhotoViewer is not a standalone exe, but a dll invoked with:
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen (/path/image_name)

My question is: how to invoke PhotoViewer using TC internal association? Because using double quote or single quote does not work.

Double quote:
Filter6_Open-PhotoViewer=""%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen" "%1""

Single quote:
Filter6_Open-PhotoViewer=""%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe '%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll', ImageView_Fullscreen" "%1""

By the way, by running from command prompt, I also observed that the "/path/image_name" could not be enclosed with quote,
to be understood by PhotoViewer, so there is a problem when the image_name contains spaces in its name.

Thank you in advance.

[Dalai]

This will work:

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%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll",ImageView_Fullscreen %1

For some reason the %1 must not be quoted. That's the command Windows has in the registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\open\command).

Regards
Dalai

[petermad]

I just use:

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rundll32 shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

and it works fine

[ktp]

@Dalai
Thank you for your explanation.

@petermad
Thank you very much. It works for me, regardless that the image file name has spaces or not.
So the final command in my wincmd.ini is:
Filter6_open-PhotoViewer="rundll32.exe shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1"