Quick view CTRL+Q and photos

niobium · Post by **niobium** » 2004 Jul 17, 20:49

why the quick view for DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS appear do in the form of textual file and not image? Thank you

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Jul 17, 21:13

That is expected display when file size is greater than setting for max thumbnail size (on Tools | Options... | General tab )
AND
you have not ticked "No hex preview" (on Tools | Options... | Window tab )
To always show pictures, regardless of file size, set max size limit to 0.

niobium · Post by **niobium** » 2004 Jul 17, 21:25

I have ticked "No Hex preview" et set max size limit to 0... and now there is nothing any more, the window is empty ??????

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Jul 17, 22:02

That should not be if you have set Byte file size limit for extracting
Thumbnails = 0 (on Tools | Options... | General tab )

Now when you are focused on a picture file (.jpg .bmp .gif .png etc...)
you should see the preview in QuickView pane for any file type that Windows Media Player can view. {edit/add: WMP must be installed, as x2 plugs into latest version of WMP that it finds on your machine to decode the picture. Also see this forum topic for further discussion.}

If this does not resolve your issue, please provide more details on file(s) you are trying to view, etc...

wavy c · Post by **wavy c** » 2004 Jul 18, 01:50

I have noticed a similar problem with previewing html (web) pages stored on my hdd when using win xp.

On a old laptop, running win98se, xplorer2 displays a little thumbnail picure of the html page when preview is on. For some reason, on my xp desktop computer, all I get is a hex display.

Digital pictures display fine for me under both xp and win98se.

If xplorer2 uses media player to display pictures, I wonder what it uses to dipslay html pages? Perhaps I have inadvertently changed a setting somewhere, or a file extension association?

It's not a major issue, but I am curious to know if it possible to fix this behavior.

regards - wavy c

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Jul 18, 06:59

wavy c, you must have win XP SP1 where html previewing was turned off by m$ for "security issues"; please search this forum for a discussion that explains how to turn it back on

niobium, what's the file extension of these digital pictures?

niobium · Post by **niobium** » 2004 Jul 18, 07:39

i have set max size limit to 0 in the wrong place (in text preview size

), now all it's OK.... thank you very very much !!!!!

Super génial ce programme !!!!!

wavy c · Post by **wavy c** » 2004 Jul 18, 13:22

Nikos - Tnx, yes I'm using sp1 so that explains the lack of html previews.

Niobium - Glad to know you got your picture previews working. I searched for some info on this, which you won't need now, but perhaps the following may be useful to others having similar problems:

Remove image and/or media preview in Explorer

Windows XP Explorer has a 'feature' to provide a preview in the Details box on the left of the file you have selected, if it's supported. Image files, HTML pages, video clips, MP3s, etc are all previewed (even with the folder view open).

If you have a large movie clip and it either is corrupt (ie. no index from a partial download) or it uses an unsupported codec, then Explorer tries to load the whole file. This can slow your computer a lot and prevent deleting/renaming/moving/etc the file until it's finished.

Simply do the following steps:

1) Open a command window (Start->Run, type in 'cmd' hit enter)
2) To remove image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll
3) To readd image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
4) To remove media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
5) To readd media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shmedia.dll

- wavy c

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2004 Jul 18, 18:14

nikos wrote:wavy c, you must have win XP SP1 where html previewing was turned off by m$ for "security issues"; please search this forum for a discussion that explains how to turn it back on
[...]

wavy c, took the liberty of looking it up for you. Here's the key part from my post which describes the easiest way (I know of at least) to get preview and thumbnails for .htm and .html files back in Windows XP SP1:

[...]
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!!

wavy c · Post by **wavy c** » 2004 Jul 19, 15:53

JRz, Tnx for taking the trouble to look this up - very kind!

Looking forward to trying it out later this evening.

I guess m$ must have been worried about malicious scripts running when doing a html preview, but as any web pages I have stored on my hdd will have already been opened in a browser I don't think I'll worry too much about their "security issues"!

-

wavy c · Post by **wavy c** » 2004 Jul 19, 23:24

Tested JRz's reg file - it works!

- wavy c

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2004 Jul 20, 05:39

Of course

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Quick view CTRL+Q and photos

Quick view CTRL+Q and photos

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