Display png/gif icons as icons in Windows Explorer

[Guest]

Another one you may have an elegant answer for John:

Assembling a collection of icons in a folder where I can look at them all at
once, I note that icons with the .ico suffix are shown in Windows Explorer
as icons, but those that are .png or .gif are not. Is there a way to tell
WE to show these as icons too?

That would be another handy thing to be able to do.

Regards,

S

 

[John Inzer]

Another one you may have an elegant answer for John:

Assembling a collection of icons in a folder where I can look at them
all at once, I note that icons with the .ico suffix are shown in
Windows Explorer as icons, but those that are .png or .gif are not. Is
there a way to tell WE to show these as icons too?

That would be another handy thing to be able to do.

Regards,

S

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Are you saying you cannot view
thumbnails for .png or .gif files?

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

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Are you saying you cannot view
thumbnails for .png or .gif files?

No:
The thumbnails for the ico files are pictures of the icos;
Whereas, the thumbnails for the png and gif are all the same 'placeholder'
tile.
Presumably there is something telling WE to use each ico itself as the
thumbnail, but nothing telling it to use the png and gif pictures themselves
in a similar manner.
The png and gif files can be seen if 'tiles' is selected as the view, but
then they are all tiny compared with the handy way the ico files are
displayed in thumbnail view.

Hope that's clearer.

Thanks,
S

 

[John Inzer]

No:
The thumbnails for the ico files are pictures of the icos;
Whereas, the thumbnails for the png and gif are all the same
'placeholder' tile.
Presumably there is something telling WE to use each ico itself as the
thumbnail, but nothing telling it to use the png and gif pictures
themselves in a similar manner.
The png and gif files can be seen if 'tiles' is selected as the view,
but then they are all tiny compared with the handy way the ico files
are displayed in thumbnail view.

Hope that's clearer.

Thanks,
S

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No guarantees but It may be worth a try to
repair your image associations.

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm

Windows® XP File Association Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Also it may help to go to...Start / Run and type
(or copy/paste):

regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll
(yes, the space after the 2 and the space
after the i is required)

Press...Enter...

You should see a dialog box that says:
DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shimgvw.dll succeeded

Good luck...

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

=========================================
No guarantees but It may be worth a try to
repair your image associations.

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm

Windows® XP File Association Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Also it may help to go to...Start / Run and type
(or copy/paste):

regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll
(yes, the space after the 2 and the space
after the i is required)

Press...Enter...

You should see a dialog box that says:
DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shimgvw.dll succeeded

Good luck...

Are you suggesting that my png icons are supposed to show up the same way as
the ico ones?
I don't want to muck about with blanket fixes for file associations when
some of my associations are deliberately not the standard ones. However, I
will have a look at your links: but won't be able to get back to you for a
week or so as I'm just off for a break.

Thanks once again,

S

 

[John Inzer]

Are you suggesting that my png icons are supposed to show up the same
way as the ico ones?
I don't want to muck about with blanket fixes for file associations
when some of my associations are deliberately not the standard ones.
However, I will have a look at your links: but won't be able to get
back to you for a week or so as I'm just off for a break.

Thanks once again,

S

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I'm sorry you think I am suggesting that
you "muck about" with your system.

Good luck finding a solution.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

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I'm sorry you think I am suggesting that
you "muck about" with your system.

Good luck finding a solution.

No offence intended,
Your advice is always useful.

Away for a few days now, so will try again later.

Cheers,

S