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Cant view webpage thumbnail in Windows Explorer

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/cant-view-webpage-thumbnail-in-windows-explorer.16709/

RCuber
RCuber Original post #1
Oct 10, 2005 at 3:38 AM
Hello All,

I have a strange problem. I cannot see thumbnail preview of webpages in windows explorer(Windows XP Pro.(i have reinstalled XP many times).I can preview PDF and image files only. It works perfectly in windows 2000. I cannot figure out how to do it. I have seen the thumbnails in many of my friend's pcs even after fresh clean install(XP). I wonder what could be the problem? is there any kind of settings.I know that there will be a registery tweak, but which one? :(

Charan
RCuber
RCuber #2
Oct 13, 2005 at 1:41 AM
No One knows what to do!!!
QwertyManiac
QwertyManiac #3
Dec 20, 2005 at 3:56 PM
I too cant see.. I see jus an IE icon.. U can use some 3rd party s/w for this mebbe :)
RCuber
RCuber #4
Dec 20, 2005 at 3:59 PM
Ahh a reply at last.

yea i can only see the IE icon, dono about 3rd party software. but isnt the thumbnail preview a feature of xp ??????
S
sakumar79 #5
Dec 20, 2005 at 4:18 PM
According to *www.infopackets.com/channels/en/wi...213_windows_thumbnails_wont_appear_part_2.htm

MS turned off a few features in the Thumbnail View for stability & performance reasons, starting with XP Service Pack 1 release. They took away the functionality to view HTML files in thumbnail view as well as most Web content files. The following file types have been disabled from thumbnail view: HTML documents (.htm & .html files), XML documents (.xml files), Internet e-mail messages (.eml files), & Internet news messages (.nws files).

There is a note on another website which suggests that by replacing the new Thumbvw.dll with older Thumbvw.dll, you can get back the functionality, and I guess you can extract the older file using sfc and the original WinXP CD, but I advise creating a system restore point before trying this...

In another discussion, the following code is copied to a new file that is to be named html.reg (or anything else, with a .reg extension). Then, this is to be merged with registry and restarted...

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REGEDIT4


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\ShellEx]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]


@="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3} "


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellEx]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]


@="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3} "


--- End on previous line ---

Arun
RCuber
RCuber #6
Dec 21, 2005 at 12:20 AM
hey arun :) thanks a lot. the registry tirck works. no need to reboot also

:) :) :)

charan