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Right click an empty part of the Explorer window and select Refresh from the menu. If there is no immediate change, refresh the window contents.

Click View in the menu bar if the toolbar ribbon is not visible.

Go to a folder that contains images, such as the Pictures folder.

Is there no way to preview files? Let’s take a look at these issues. That does not work on Windows PCs, which can be frustrating. If you use an Apple Mac, you may be used to selecting an image file and pressing the spacebar to preview it. It makes it impossible to see what an image file or photo is without opening in it a photo editing program, which is tediously slow to do when there are many files.Īnother problem you may have is that double clicking photo files in an Explorer window does not show the photo or that it appears in the wrong application instead of the one you want to use to view it or edit it. You might just see a generic file icon for every image instead of a thumbnail – a small postage stamp sized image. There are several issues here and one is that thumbnails of photos are not displayed when browsing the disk in File Explorer, which used to be called Windows Explorer.

Except when it does not show thumbnails or previews.

File Explorer in Windows should show thumbnails of images like photos on the disk, which makes finding them easy. You could substitute any one of these preview handlers… if you wanted to register a media file preview handler, you could use as the value instead of using the preview handler for text files.Īt this point, you should be able to select a. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PreviewHandlers

This key is the unique ID for the Windows TXT Preview Handler, which I figured out by looking under the list of currently registered Preview Handlers in the registry: Once you’ve created that key and selected it, you’ll see a new (Default) key on the right hand side which you’ll want to modify.ĭouble-click on the (Default) key, and use the following text for the value: This key is the unique ID that tells Windows Explorer you want to set a preview handler. Once you are there, create a new key called shellex under it, and then create another key under that one with this name: Next you’ll need to browse down to the ProgID key, where we’ll actually apply the hack: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile.