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basically you have somehow associated the image type with notepad instead of what image program you have installed. The text you see is just the core 1's and 0's that would be the image converted into text by Notepad. There are many different types of images, jpg is the mopst common, .bmp next and .gif probably next but there others as well ( .png, .tiff etc)

Assuming its a jpg image and XP as an OS but vista/win 7 is pretty close IIRC ( I dont use Windows apart from at work and haven't for many years )

you need to know what image editing/viewing software you have installed, then in Windows explorer, click Tools, Folder Options. On the "File Types" scroll down looking for jpg. select it and it will show in the "opens with" section "notepad". Click "change" then you need to select what image software you have installed. (Basic ones are Paint, Windows Picture and fax viewer but you will probably have something better installed )

make sure the "always use the selected program to open this kind of file "is ticked and click OK.

now retry opening the image, it should work fine.

If your picture is of a different type than jpg then you need to do the above having selected that type in the list. Also just to confuse matters jpg files are also called jpeg and jpe so you may beed to do this for all types of this.



An alternative way is to uninstall your image editing software and re-install it. quite often there is a step where it says "associate images with this software", click yes and it will do teh above for you for all types.