explorer preview not working for SOME .psd files

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naughty boy
Jul 19, 2003
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In explorer the .psd files show up as small thumbnails in the main window but when I select an individual file only some of them show up in the prefiew on the left. If I open Photoshop 7 and resave one of the files that will preview then the preview will stop working.

I have lost explorer previews before for things like .jpg and got it back by putting in the correct registry entry. I have tried that for this but no luck.

I just find it strange that only some images preview and some dont. All the images were created from the same source and have the same settings.
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Madsen
Jul 19, 2003
naughty boy wrote:

In explorer the .psd files show up as small thumbnails in the main window but when I select an individual file only some of them show up in the prefiew on the left. If I open Photoshop 7 and resave one of the files that will preview then the preview will stop working.

Have you tried Photoshop 7.01?

< http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1851>

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| Files made with Photoshop now work better with Microsoft® | Windows® XP’s automatic thumbnail generation.

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Madsen.
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naughty boy
Jul 19, 2003
tried that , I am on Windows 2k.

I think it was after I installed the update that things went funny but not certain, I have a feeling I unistalled some other graphics package but I cant remeber.
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dave milbut
Jul 19, 2003
reinstall ps & the update and see if that clears it. maybe something got overwritten when you installed the win2k service pack.
DM
dave milbut
Jul 19, 2003
reinstall seems like it is a quick fix. less that 2 or 3 minutes on my system.
JM
James Mahood
Jul 25, 2003
This is caused by a bug in PSICON.DLL which Adobe attached to IE. When IE sees a .psd file it calls PSICON.DLL to display the tumbnail. IE will also crash because of this bug. I reported this and Adobe in January 2003 and they reporduced the problem in April 2003, not too quick. I also reported it to Microsoft who isolated and reproduced the problem in February 2003. Adobe is currently refusing to fix it or talk about it. Maybe if more people call them and complain it will get fixed.

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