What happens when you try to open the pictures in the Windows Picture and fax Viewer?
Where are you trying to open the pictures from?
Try this: Right click on Start> Explore> My Documents> My Pictures> open any folder you want by double clicking on folder on the left> On View above, to the right of Folders, check Filmstrip> then right click on any of the pictures> open with> choose Windows P&F Viewer.
See if that will work for you.