Guest Janetb Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I have old KB articles which tell you how to add ShellEx registry keys in order to view thumbnails as images instead of as icons in Windows Explorer for formats other than the ususal jpgs and tifs. It worked well on my old Windows 2000, where I added thumbnail views for psd's and pdf's and etc. I hesitate using this technique on my present system (XP Pro), because it DOES show images for the formats mentioned above, but nevertheless does NOT have the added ShellEX file in the registry entries for those formats, whereas they DID appear in my old 2KPRO....The old articles are not meant for XP, except for one which dealt with getting image thumbnails "after upgrade to Office XP"(?). I added the psd's now thru a link I received from a different forum, and would like to add at least pdf's. I use PDF X-Change PDF Viewer. Any help would be appreciated! Janet Thanks, Janet
Guest Janetb Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 RE: Viewing formats other than tif/jpg/psd as images in W. Explorer Th The title of this thread was: Viewing formats other than tif/jpg/psd as images in W. Explorer Thumbnails. Since most of it got cut off, a more appropriate, short title would be: Viewing Thumbnails as Images Sorry. Janet
Guest ju.c Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 Re: Viewing formats other than tif/jpg/psd as images in W. Explorer Th I'd love to learn about that too, but until someone spills the beans we can use this: ThumbView 1.0 500 KB (Freeware) http://www.seriema.net/thumbview/ "ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in MS-Windows Explorer for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any Explorer window! This image software is completely free!" Supported filetypes cut dcx dds mdl mng pcd pcx pic pix png pnm pbm pgm ppm psd pdd psp pxr sgi rgb tga vda icb vst tif tiff wal xpm ju.c "Janetb" <Janetb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9B7B647A-14D0-4CFE-8174-9F422988C632@microsoft.com... > I have old KB articles which tell you how to add ShellEx registry keys in > order to view thumbnails as images instead of as icons in Windows Explorer > for formats other than the ususal jpgs and tifs. It worked well on my old > Windows 2000, where I added thumbnail views for psd's and pdf's and etc. I > hesitate using this technique on my present system (XP Pro), because it DOES > show images for the formats mentioned above, but nevertheless does NOT have > the added ShellEX file in the registry entries for those formats, whereas > they DID appear in my old 2KPRO....The old articles are not meant for XP, > except for one which dealt with getting image thumbnails "after upgrade to > Office XP"(?). > > I added the psd's now thru a link I received from a different forum, and > would like to add at least pdf's. I use PDF X-Change PDF Viewer. > > Any help would be appreciated! > Janet > Thanks, > Janet
Guest Janetb Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 Re: Viewing formats other than tif/jpg/psd as images in W. Explorer Re: Viewing formats other than tif/jpg/psd as images in W. Explorer Thanks Ju.c! That's pretty cool--although I hate to install a whole program just for tga's (which is the remaining format I would like image thumbnails for)....A similar thread I had under the PHOTOS MS group had a link to get psd thumbnails, which worked, and I found out my pfd reader is coming out tomorrow with a shell ext for pdf image thumbnails. -- Thanks for the help! Janet "ju.c" wrote: > I'd love to learn about that too, but until someone spills the beans we can > use this: > > ThumbView 1.0 500 KB (Freeware) > http://www.seriema.net/thumbview/ > > "ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in MS-Windows Explorer > for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, > DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types > - directly inside any Explorer window! This image software is completely > free!" > > Supported filetypes > cut dcx dds mdl mng pcd pcx pic pix png pnm pbm pgm ppm > psd pdd psp pxr sgi rgb tga vda icb vst tif tiff wal xpm > > > ju.c >
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