PSD thumbnails in My Pictures / Explorer

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Phypps
Feb 11, 2004
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On my previous computer (Win XP SP1 and Photoshop 7) Photoshop .psd files showed as thumbnails in Explorer.

On new computer (again Win XP SP1 but this time Photoshop CS) they just show as the generic Photoshop icon.

Anyone throw some light on what is (or is not) happening here ?

Phypps
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No Where Man
Feb 11, 2004
This is a feature that Adobe removed from Photoshop CS
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Eric Gill
Feb 11, 2004
"Phypps" wrote in
news:SrmWb.5140$:

On my previous computer (Win XP SP1 and Photoshop 7) Photoshop .psd files showed as thumbnails in Explorer.

On new computer (again Win XP SP1 but this time Photoshop CS) they just show as the generic Photoshop icon.

Anyone throw some light on what is (or is not) happening here ?

The .dll responsible for doing so was buggy and slow, and Adobe wass either unable or unwilling to fix it. They removed it from CS.

The old version will work (as well as it ever did) provided you don’t do something silly like uninstalling 7 before installing CS.
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Doug Chaplin
Feb 11, 2004
"Eric Gill" wrote in message
"Phypps" wrote in
news:SrmWb.5140$:

The old version will work (as well as it ever did) provided you don’t do something silly like uninstalling 7 before installing CS.

And also if you reinstall 7 later, it will also work once more. —
Doug

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