Thursday, November 5, 2009

Automatically View Thumbnails of Bitmap Files – Windows Tips And Tricks

Automatically View Thumbnails of Bitmap Files – Windows Tips And Tricks

Makes Explorer show a thumbnail version of bitmaps files in the current folder rather than the generic icon ordinarily used. This is a great way to preview .BMP files without having to open them first.

Open your registry and find the key below.

Modify the value of (Default) to equal ‘%1′.

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

Registry Settings

System Key:[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture\DefaultIcon]
Value Name: (Default)
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: %1

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