display icon of jpg from inside an archive

[Guest]

Hello,

I know that XP can dispay the icon of a bmp file so that the icon shows what
the actual image is. Is there a way to add this functionality for a JPG file
in the tile view?

If that is possible, is it then possible to have it display an icon for a
zip file as the image of the first jpg inside the zip file? What about rar?
XP can already treat archives as folders so this extended functionality
shouldnt be too difficult right?

The ultimate goal I have is to navigate to a folder full of archives of
images, and have the icon for each archive show the first image in that
archive. I think this may be possible, but I have no idea of how to go about
it.


Thanks,
Michael Kantor

 

[David Candy]

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