Re: thumbnail in My Pictures folder just show as an icon

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Thankyou for your help - this worked for all but the Tiff image, untill I
realised that I had been saving my Tiff images in a zipped format!

"Yves Alarie" wrote:

> Click on Start and click on Run and type the following in the textbox:
> REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
> and press the Enter key.
> You will get a "success" message.
> Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI...
> Then, right click on a jpg and click on Open with on the opening menu. Click
> on Choose program at the bottom of the list. A window will open, select
> Windows Picture and Fax viewer and check the box "Always...."
> You may have to do the same right click with tif and gif. For Raw, you need
> your PE 3. Windows picture and fax viewer cannot open Raw files.
> "krys" <krys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3701AF1F-CF79-422F-8264-4429B3ACFC33@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > If I save images as a JPEG in my pictures I am able to see a the image on
> > the thumbnail - however if I save in any other format Tiff, Gif, Raw etc
> all
> > I see is the icon for the format saved. Is there any way I can get My
> > Pictures to show the image. Also if I try to open the image in Windows
> > Picture and Fax view I get the message "No preview available". This
> happens
> > to all images whether imported from camera, scanner or produced on
> graphics
> > program. The only way I can veiw the photos is to open them with Adobe
> > photoshop elements V3 or one of my other graphics programs which is a bit
> of
> > a nuisance when I want to flip through the images quickly.
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation for any advice
>
>
>
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