Preview pane questions

[pmike]

I saw some screenshots in the quickstart guide that have thumbnails of html docs showing up in the preview pane (this worked on 2xExplorer too; short-cuts to websites were also thumbnailed).

This doesn't appear to work on my install of xplorer2 pro. (my OS is WinXP Pro)

Are these problems/settings with Windows Explorer or xplorer2?

[pmike]

pardon...the screenshots were not of thumbnails in the preview pane, but thumbnails of html files showing up in the thumbnail view.

Regardless, thumbnails of html files don't appear to work.

[fgagnon]

EDIT/REPLACE WITH:
Please disregard my original post, {text now deleted}
& see below for solution.

[pmike]

How does xplorer2 manage previewing? Does it plug into the standard shell preview engine?

It may be some obscure setting in windows; my machine is a stock corporate build.

My behavior is that html files show up in the preview pain as plain text; if one of my pains is in thumbnail mode, the html files have the "no thumbnail available" icon.

[fgagnon]

Yes, it is my understanding that x2 plugs into the std shell for this.

How big are those htm(l) files?

[edit/add:]WHOA !!!
I only thought it was ok on my XP, but when I dbl-checked, I have the problem you described

(Preview & thumbs DO show ok on my w2k, though.)

[pmike]

what a relief...glad I'm not the only one.

It doesn't matter what the size of the html files are. Even dummy html files less than 100 bytes don't work.

[nikos]

i'm sure i discussed about this before
XP SP1 turned off html thumbnailing for "security precautions"

you should put it back on manually (not sure if there is a KB article in msdn about it)

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3}"

that should do it

btw i'm sure you'll find that neither 2x or windows explorer does thumbnails of html on your system

[fgagnon]

right you are (don't know how I missed it , or why i thought it WAS working & now is not !)

[nikos]

try this registry patch, it should bring it back on

[fgagnon]

& it did, as advertised

[JRz]

i'm sure i discussed about this before
XP SP1 turned off html thumbnailing for "security precautions"

And that's where I put my addition to your post in this topic. Can you please remove it in the other thread Nikos. The one inserted here should stay. Thanks...

Moved from other discussion about html thumbnails

You should do the same for the .html key in the same registry hive

In fact, if you paste the following text (see code section) in an empty file and (for example) save it under the name 'fixHTMLPreview.reg', you can simply double-click the file and you're sorted

(especially used win9x/NT4 compatible first line - REGEDIT4 - to be able to use this down to win98)

Code: Select all

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3} "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3} "

Enjoy!!

[fgagnon]

So you waited until AFTER I did it by hand in regedit to post the easy way to do it!
__________________________________________________________________
But, seriously, that 'tip' should go on the x2 FAQ page to answer what will be a near-perpetual query. eh, nikos?

[JRz]

So you waited until AFTER I did it by hand in regedit to post the easy way to do it!

But of course, you can help yourself obviously. The easy way is meant for the real customers

But, seriously, that 'tip' should go on the x2 FAQ page to answer what will be a near-perpetual query. eh, nikos?

I agree!

[pmike]

thanks all

[nikos]

i don't think this is a x2 issue, but if the question comes up again i'll put it in the faq!