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Windows 7 explorer - obtain bigger preview images in tile view
I have a folder called "Scan" where I put the scan files made by my copier:
they can be .pdf, b/w .tif, or color .jpg
I find useful to set the view for this folder as "tiles", so I get a small preview ...
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Opening images in Win 7 not working anymore - " COM surrogate has stopped working " error
I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, with all updates installed. Suddenly, from some moment on today I can no longer open images with Windows Photo Viewer. I get " COM surrogate has stopped working " ...
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Windows 7 - Show thumbnails for special image formats
I have several images on my computer some of them are in special image formats like .hdr, .exr, .tif. WIndows shows thumbnails previews for common image formats only, e.g .jpg, .png. How can I get ...
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What causes Windows Photo Viewer to stretch an image on occasion?
I had an image on my harddrive of Dusk Maiden of Amnesia which in the thumbnails looked perfectly fine
however when i went to view it in Windows Photo Viewer to see how large it was the image's width ...
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Prevent thumbnail in folder icon, Third party tool allowed
When I disable thumbnail preview, I like my folder icon, but I also lose photo preview. How can I get the folder icon like second one along with having photo preview in thumbnail?
I compromised to ...
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show .jps 3d image file thumbnails in folders on windows 7 x64
A .jps file is a 3d image file which in reality is a jpg with leftright images joined (JPEG Stereoscopic)
Months ago i found a registry hack for windows that enabled explorer to show the thumbnails ...
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How to open & view several images at once?
I have several small images I would like to display all opened at the same time (on my second monitor)?
I would like to multiselect the files in file explorer or from within the tool and get them ...
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Windows 7 preview images won't show
This used to happen before: I open a folder with images and if I have large icons it used to show me small images of what the actual image is,
but now: when I open the folder sometimes it shows me ...
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Image thumbnails in Windows Explorer on Windows 7 - revert to XP view?
Does anyone know if there is a way to force Windows Explorer (under Windows 7) to display image thumbnails like Windows XP does?
There's a reason for this apparent lunacy: I spend a significant ...
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Image preview/thumbnail not working in Windows 7
I'm in the process of setting up a new laptop with Windows 7 Enterprise and I'm having two issues:
Image previews/thumbnails are not displaying in Explorer.
Most of the files I've copied from my old ...
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Fix image previews and thumbnails in explorer on Windows 7?
Image files used to show as thumbnails in the explorer window, and a larger preview could be seen in the preview pane (alt+p).
Now for some unknown reason, I just see a default image icon in both the ...
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Windows 7: Image thumbnails fail to appear
All right, I've got a pretty strange one here. Since I installed Windows 7 on this machine some time ago, image thumbnails have never worked properly. For the vast majority of images, they ...