No thumbnail view - Windows 2000 pro

[Sixpac_XP]

In Windows 2000 when using the "thumbnail view" mode in Explorer.. it doesn't show a preview of the .jpg or .mpg files anymore, just an icon of the default app it will open it with.

How do i get the preview mode back with thumbnails to work again in Windows 2000 Pro?

Thanks.

[kendo]

is it broke? thumbnail view will display

bmp - gif - jpg - jpeg - htm/l

files that cannot be displayed are displayed with their default icons default icons

there are a couple of reasons it won't work

possibly a third party application has reassociated the file types e.g. installing photoshop mskb


uninstalling microsoft photo editor can cause this to happen if this is the case mskb

[Sixpac_XP]

The last suggestion worked perfectly!

I did install the latest beta of MS Office 2003 (which by the way does not have photo editor). So that was the problem.

Thank you very much.

[TJude]

I also have upgraded to O2003 and lost thumbnails. Found this post, and it worked for jpegs, but I still can't see gifs. Any thoughts?

[John Prophet]

As a tack-on to this thread...I used to use WinME a lot and it had thumbnail view....of course W98se doesnt....I am using a W98se machine a lot these days...is there any way to bring thumbnail functionality over to the W98 machine??

Thanks, JP

[TJude]

The Same Registry entry restores GIFs, as I just found out. Thanks to all!

[Scott Tiger]

Originally posted by John Prophet
As a tack-on to this thread...I used to use WinME a lot and it had thumbnail view....of course W98se doesnt....I am using a W98se machine a lot these days...is there any way to bring thumbnail functionality over to the W98 machine??

Thanks, JP

Yes, you can get similiar functionality from Windows 98. The trick is you need to right click on the folder that contains the pictures you want to thumbnail and hit properties. There should be a check box entitled "enable thumbnails" or some such. It should work fine after that.

[John Prophet]

cool! you are exactly right.....I always miss the obvious stuff while trying to learn the hidden.

JP