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Adam Albright
One of the reasons people upgrade to a new version of Windows is they
hope Microsoft fixed bugs and assorted issues in earlier versions.
Often, new versions of Windows insteads still has the same old bugs
and new ones get added. What follows is another documented example.
I work with graphic files all day long. Still images, videos, you name
it, all file types. While Windows has been able to display thumbnails
for some time now in Windows Explorer it still fails often. That's a
shame and odd, especially when we're talking standard file types like
AVI or MPG that are in wide use world wide.
So over the years I've accumulated several applications, they're often
free and not really surprising, work faster and better then Windows.
Once such application is XnView. It rarely fails to do what I ask it.
Since I edit image and video files all the time it helps if you can
see thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Often Windows fails to be able to
open* the file, which it must do to create a thumbnail, so instead of
creating a thumbnail it shows a icon for the file type instead.
Annoying, because when you have literally hundreds of thousands of
files, a icon and just the file name doesn't help much. I want to SEE
a thumbnail because I sometimes have hundreds of files all very
similar and just the file name by itself is pretty useless.
What really damns Windows is often it does originally create the
thumbnail, then if I work on the file and resave it, then it can't any
longer create a thumbnail of the corrected version of the file. This
has been a annoyance for years. I know its a bug in Windows because
none of my other applications have any trouble. They still go right on
showing the thumbnail before I work on the file and after. So it isn't
a issue with the file type, or a corrupted file, something odd in the
file header or any of other dozens of other things that can could
prevent a application from opening a graphic file. Just Windows being
dumb.
Somebody ought to right a book of all the dumb things Windows does. It
would be a very large book. <wink>
* the use of the word "open" is perhaps misleading in how I used it.
I'm referring to Windows being unable to sometimes open a file in
order to create a thumnail of it. Oddly Window's media player or just
clicking on the file from Explorer usually will open and play the
correctly so this bug seems limited to Windows ability to properly
create thumbnails. Its been around at lease since Window 98. Still not
fixed. :-(
hope Microsoft fixed bugs and assorted issues in earlier versions.
Often, new versions of Windows insteads still has the same old bugs
and new ones get added. What follows is another documented example.
I work with graphic files all day long. Still images, videos, you name
it, all file types. While Windows has been able to display thumbnails
for some time now in Windows Explorer it still fails often. That's a
shame and odd, especially when we're talking standard file types like
AVI or MPG that are in wide use world wide.
So over the years I've accumulated several applications, they're often
free and not really surprising, work faster and better then Windows.
Once such application is XnView. It rarely fails to do what I ask it.
Since I edit image and video files all the time it helps if you can
see thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Often Windows fails to be able to
open* the file, which it must do to create a thumbnail, so instead of
creating a thumbnail it shows a icon for the file type instead.
Annoying, because when you have literally hundreds of thousands of
files, a icon and just the file name doesn't help much. I want to SEE
a thumbnail because I sometimes have hundreds of files all very
similar and just the file name by itself is pretty useless.
What really damns Windows is often it does originally create the
thumbnail, then if I work on the file and resave it, then it can't any
longer create a thumbnail of the corrected version of the file. This
has been a annoyance for years. I know its a bug in Windows because
none of my other applications have any trouble. They still go right on
showing the thumbnail before I work on the file and after. So it isn't
a issue with the file type, or a corrupted file, something odd in the
file header or any of other dozens of other things that can could
prevent a application from opening a graphic file. Just Windows being
dumb.
Somebody ought to right a book of all the dumb things Windows does. It
would be a very large book. <wink>
* the use of the word "open" is perhaps misleading in how I used it.
I'm referring to Windows being unable to sometimes open a file in
order to create a thumnail of it. Oddly Window's media player or just
clicking on the file from Explorer usually will open and play the
correctly so this bug seems limited to Windows ability to properly
create thumbnails. Its been around at lease since Window 98. Still not
fixed. :-(