Filmstrip keeps disappearing

[Guest]

Hi,
I find the filmstrip viewer very useful for quick previewing pictures in
Windows Explorer, but this option is not always available, and yes I am aware
that it is only available from the "My Pictures" folder. I have many
sub-folders as part of "My Pictures" folder, but as far as I understand this
should not make the filmstrip viewing option not available.
Could some-one enlighten me? Could I have turned this option 'off' by
mistake? Is there a way for me to 'turn on' this option again?
Thanks for any help or insight.

 

[Yves Alarie]

You do not have to be in "My Pictures" folder or sub-folder of it to get
Filmstrip.
When the first file made in a folder is an image file, XP should associate
this type of file with a "Pictures" folder and automatically give you
Filmstrip view.
If this is not happening do the following.
Click on Start and click on Run and type the following in the textbox:
REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
and press the Enter key.
Note that there is a space between ...32 and SH..
This will take a second to run and will take care of new image file folders
you make.

Now to get the Filmstrip for your folders where it is not available, simply:
Right click on the folder or subfolder name.
Click on Properties
Click on the Customize tab and then for "What kind of folder", scroll to
Pictures.
This should do it.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. It works when the "customize" tab is available, but if I select
the "my pictures" folder the customize tab is not there!!!!!! It is there
are some of the sub-folders, so the fix works. I have to go through the tree
and do the main sub-folders and then check off the "apply to sub-folders" box.

Thanks again for your time.