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Good morning all,
Well, I've searched and this, apparently, is not a problem. I'm running Windows 7 pro 32 bit and don't get thumbnails from my Xara photo&Graphic designer 6. Can anyone help? I've put up with it for months now, ever since I loaded W7, due to sheer inertia (laziness) meaning to look for a solution, and now that I do, thinking it was something I'd overlooked I can't find anything..help!
All the best,
Fraser
is it just the xara thumbnails you have problem with
if so right-click and run as administrator might fix it for 32bit win7, worth trying - I had no problems with this, but I have win7 home, not pro
Yeah, in windows explorer I only get icons. Did you mean run the program as administrator?Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
cheers
yes, sorry, the program..
in win7 home you have to activate thumbnails globally by clicking on the WE 'organise button > folder and search options > view tab, and unticking 'always show icons, never thumbnails' - maybe similar in pro
and then thumbnails will appear [but not necessarily for the smallest icon sizes]
Running the program as admin. doesn't seem to help and 'always show icons' is unticked.... This wasn't a problem in XP and I can't see that there should be a difference between 'home' and 'pro' on such a basic consideration....Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
have a look here:
http://board.xara-users.info/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=152
ok that is for the 64bit version - but it might work for 32bit - but at your own risk, I cannot guarantee it
you would have to change the XarThumb64.dll in 'regsvr32 XarThumb64.dll ' - on my 32bit win7 system it would appear to be 'XarThumb.dll' but you would have to check yours
you might find the utility mentioned in the link easier [but i have not used it]
I get this
http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/...creen-xara.jpg
Arrrrgh. i even tried reloading xara to no avail, sigh. I hate these sort of glitches, I'm just not computer-literate enough for it!
You don't need the '(x86)' in the file path [thats a 64bit system thing], leave it out and it should find the directory
This fix works http://board.xara-users.info/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=152
Used it myself yesterday when I realised half [?!] of my thumbnails were showing the example and the other half just displayed the Xara DP logo
thanks John
since that is the self same link I gave perhaps we are on the right track - is for 32bit win7 in this case though....
Oops ... sorry Steve :o
no problem - likely you know more about win7 than I :) not difficult
Never thort I'd say it but Win7 is brilliant! Wouldn't say I know about it exactly tho ... it's brill cos it works so well without me having to mither with it:)
I do wish I hadn't said that! :eek:
Hi, I managed to sort the problem. I kept getting the message that the path was wrong, so I went to the Xara folder in 'Program Files' and located the relevant dll. Then I did a whole computer search for it which gave me the correct path which was a little different than the one on the forum, instead of cd Program Files (x86)\Xara\Xara_Designer_Pro_6\XaraDLLs I changed it to Xara_Photo_Graphic_Designer_Pro. I can't remember if I deleted the x86 or not - it was rather late last night... anyway that did it and then just did the regsvr bit and after a restart I had thumbnails. So thanks for the help, couldn't have sorted it otherwise!
Fraser
glad to help :)
In case you have lost the icons for Xara Designer Pro X, the DLL has moved to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\MAGIX Services\System\XarThumb.dll". Use the method at http://board.xara-users.info/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=152