Strange thumbnail Behaviour with PS7-Help

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Sam Lewis
Jan 15, 2004
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Greetings All,

I am a recent Photoshop 7 user and seem to be having related problems with displaying thumbnails in XP Pro Explorer. They are very slow to appear – passing thr cursor over them assists – and often initially display as a smaller icon size image inside a larger empty thumbnail. Refreshing with "F5" restores the full thumbnail pic.

Also sometimes the smaller "icon" size image comes up with the "PSD" photoshop logo. Explorer occasionally crashes when moving from open photoshop back to explorer. Hence I suspect some software clash??

I have Pentium 4 3.2 Gig with hyperthreading and 1 gig RAM. Radeon 9800 Pro AIW Graphics card ( so should be up to the job ?!)

Has anyone seen this and know how to fix? It’s driving me nuts.

Many Thanks

Sam
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Warren Sarle
Jan 16, 2004
"Sam Lewis" wrote in message
I am a recent Photoshop 7 user and seem to be having related problems with displaying thumbnails in XP Pro Explorer. They are very slow to appear – passing thr cursor over them assists – and often initially display as a smaller icon size image inside a larger empty thumbnail. Refreshing with "F5" restores the full thumbnail pic.

Also sometimes the smaller "icon" size image comes up with the "PSD" photoshop logo. Explorer occasionally crashes when moving from open photoshop back to explorer. Hence I suspect some software clash??

These are well-known bugs in psicon.dll, the program that displays icons and thumbnails for file types associated with Photoshop. There are a variety of workarounds, such as:

1) Do not associate Photoshop with the file types you are having problems with, especially JPEG files.

2) Tell Windows not to generate thumbnails for the file types you are having problems with. To do this, right-click on, say, a .jpg file, choose Properties, click on the Photoshop image tab, and uncheck the box to Generate Thumbnails.

3) Rename psicon.dll and reboot. In a standard Windows installation, it’s in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\

Adobe has cleverly "fixed" this problem in CS by not distributing psicon.dll with it.
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Sam Lewis
Jan 16, 2004
Warren Sarle wrote:
"Sam Lewis" wrote in message
I am a recent Photoshop 7 user and seem to be having related problems with displaying thumbnails in XP Pro Explorer.
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These are well-known bugs in psicon.dll,

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3) Rename psicon.dll and reboot. In a standard Windows installation, it’s in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\

Magic.fixed.Very gratefull

Thanks

Sam

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