showing thumbnail of an image when selecting it in Windows Explorer

[Guest]

I have two installations of W2k
Windows Explorer Folder Options seem to be set identically.
Yet on one installation it shows a small picture when a GIF or JPG file is
selected, whereas the other does not.

Where should I look to make the socond one operate as the first one?

 

[Guest]

View -> thumbnails
its is on that menu. You probably want to not have all
folders the same when you do that.

 

[Sean Dwyer[MSFT]]

When you say 'small picture' do you mean it actually shows the GIF/JPG image
as the icon itself?
If so, there's no ability built in to the OS that can preform that for you
so something must be installed on one machine and not the other that allows
for that.

Is it possible that the View is different in the folders on the different
machines? I know it sounds simple, but is it possible that one of the Views
is in Thumbnail mode and the other machine isn't?

Give us a little more detail on what you're seeing different between the
machines when look at the same pictures

<aa> wrote in message :I have two installations of W2k
: Windows Explorer Folder Options seem to be set identically.
: Yet on one installation it shows a small picture when a GIF or JPG file is
: selected, whereas the other does not.
:
: Where should I look to make the socond one operate as the first one?
:
:

 

[George Hester]

In the machine that does have image preview go to Start | Run | regedit | OK. Then let's do this for just gif. The others are done in a similar manner. Navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gif and select that key. Go to Registry | Export Registry file... | name it and choose a location | Save. Now carry that reg file to the machine that doesn't have the image preview and double-click | OK.

You should now have the image preview for a gif in the machine that doesn't have it now.

This happens when an installed imaging application sets up its own association for the file type.

 

[aa]

Thank you everybody who resopnded, especially to George Hester - that
worked.