Preview pane questions
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Preview pane questions
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?
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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...nikos wrote:i'm sure i discussed about this before
XP SP1 turned off html thumbnailing for "security precautions"
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)
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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} "
Dumb questions are the ones that are never asked
But of course, you can help yourself obviously. The easy way is meant for the real customersfgagnon wrote:So you waited until AFTER I did it by hand in regedit to post the easy way to do it!
I agree!fgagnon wrote:But, seriously, that 'tip' should go on the x2 FAQ page to answer what will be a near-perpetual query. eh, nikos?
Dumb questions are the ones that are never asked