Re: OT preview file help


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Tracym asked

I am wondering if anyone here could help me, I used to click on
folders on my pc and it would display all the pics in front of me or
one click would show a preview, I seem to have somehow lost this
feature, can anyone help me sort it out, bit of a pain in neck when
i
upload 100 pics from camera then have to go open everyone to find
what i am looking for.

View -> Thumbnails
You can set this ftom the View menu, a dropdown on the button bar, or
the (right-click) context menu of the open folder.

If this doesn't fix it, can you tell us which operating system you're
using
(XP Pro, XP home, 98SE, etc)


Hi tried to do this and didnt work, I am on XP home and i was ok with
previews up until before Christmas then it just changed and dont know
why,
I tried emailing microsoft and other places got no replys at all.

You havn't by any chance disabled the windows metafile viewing in an
effort to stop the windows metafile exploit ?


Wouldnt have a clue there, Lol

Mike means did you apply a security patch, or let Windows Update do it?

Is Thumbnails in the View Menu, but not working, or is it not there at
all?

If you right-click the folder icon (for one of the folders with
pictures),
select Properties, then the Customise tab, what's in the Role dropdown?
(sorry I've not got XP here, I'm working from memory). You want the one
for lots of pictures, but you could try setting it to Album (few
pictures), hen set the View to filmstrip, see if that works.

If you're still getting no luck, try asking in alt.pcnews which has
several experts answering PC problems.

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A Lurker


Thumbnails is there all it shows is an icon (showing whatever pic viewing
software i am using) have tried via filmstrip and thumbnails etc nothing
happens, Cheers will try in pcnews and see.
Thanks again
Tracym
hi,

when you go to your folder and right click on your image file, go to "open
with" and is there an option to open with " windows picture and fax
viewer"

I believe this is needed to let thumbnails be displayed.

You could try this -

click on "start"
click on "run"

type in the run box regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

hit enter.
reboot and see if your thumbnails reappear.

It sounds very much like a problem with your windows picture viewer. Has
this problem appeared since you installed some graphics software ? or have
you updated recently ( or has someone done it for you without telling
you )


Mike

Tried the start run regsvr32 shimgvw.dll ...got...Failed to access
memory location, the only thing i put on my pc was a new game, i live alone
and no one goes anywhere near my PC. Funny you should say " windows picture
and fax viewer" i used to see that as an option and its gone.
STrange Never Mind,
CHeers Anyway.
Tracym


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