Xara X thumbnails in Windows Explorer

[RAMWolff44]

I think that if you choose "Icons" from your "View" menue then click on one of them the left side pane should give you your preview image. I don't think any Windows flavor is set up to allow for a preview on the left while "Thumbnails" is selected from the "View" menu.

Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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[dafipp]

I went and checked and it makes no difference whether my view is set to icon or thumbnail. The preview window still doesn't show .xar files. When I am in Thumbnail mode and I select a .gif file it does show in the preview window.

dafipp

[roman]

It's bombastic! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[gwpriester]

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Thanks again Jonathan. Works fine in XP. Just have to remember to select View Thumnails in the View options.

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The Xara Xone

[diniel]

It might be wholly unconnected, but I can't see thumbnails for .gif or .jpg files in Win 2000 SP3.

I've never really paid too much attention to thumbnail views to be honest, though after installing the Xara thumb program, I switched a few folders from List to Thumbnail view - and realised gif or jpgs aren't thumbnailed.

Like I say, it's probably not connected to the Xara thumbnailing, perhaps gif/jpg never were thumbnailed here - something for others to check maybe

[raffon]

Daniel,

All formats thumbnail for me. Might be SP3


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[RAMWolff44]

I am running Win2000 SP3 at work, if I can remember http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif I will download and run the .dll and see if it works there. I have a couple of .xar files on board there and I have a few images, not sure if thay are .gifs or what have you. Interesting dilema though, you would think something like that would be pretty consistant in all the Windows flavors? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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[Christine Farrelly]

Thanks Jonathan for this excellent work - I would appreciate if you could post the registry changes to enable BAK file to show.

Christine

[alexbozhenov]

Hello

On the machine under Win95 it's not working http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
And it's not suprise... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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[Jonathan Payne]

Everyone: Thanks again for all you positive feedback. I have been looking into Windows 98/Me support but unfortunately I haven't been able to find all the bits I need to install either of them (despite having two Windows 98 licences). I think this means that Windows 98/Me support isn't going to get any better unless someone else fixes it (I will be happy to help anyone who wants to give it a go but they will need to have a copy of Visual Studio and some understanding of C++). Am I right in thinking that Windows 98 and Me have a thumbnails mode but Windows 95 doesn’t?

Christine: To display thumbnails for .bak files you need to add a registry key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT called ".bak\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}" and set it's default value to "{4E27AB95-F528-47E4-BB48-347D13D77C91}". Sorry about the tricky to type key names - they are one of the less fun bits of Windows programming! The attached screen shot should show what I mean. As always, be careful when editing the registry.