Thumbnail viewer for vista

It won't even work well in XP if you have a new camera - look at what the page describes as "new":. I tried the Arcview software; it tries to force you to register online i. I just ended the task and the thumbnail viewer works fine. I use the one provided by Canon. Works a treat. Kevin, we're talking about viewing RAW thumbnails natively in Windows Explorer - you can't do that with Canon's software. Mark, the Arcsoft software works on my Vista Premium lappy, if that's any encouragement.

The neat thing about DPMagic Plus is that it allowed you to rescale your thumbnails to any size you want. Gear List. I can see my Raw files in Vista installed the Canon Codec 1. You can do that through Vista Image viewup updates. Canon 40D 5Dm3 L 2. Oh yes you can! Oh, that's encouraging. After installing the Arcsoft software, was there something else that I needed to do? Ah - thanks for the update, Kevin. Since it lists the 5D as a "new" camera, I'd assume your 20D is covered.

Doesn't work for me Did you install it to any particular folder? I didn't, I just let it do its "thing. All things are difficult before they become easy. If you press Ctrl and click the Entry Size column, the entries will change from displaying in kilobytes, to simply bytes. When an item is selected, an image window will pop up to preview the thumbnail. You can move the image around the window with the mouse or arrow keys.

Each arrow key will move the image 1 pixel in that direction. By holding Ctrl and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 5 pixels. When specifying a file or directory path, it's best to surround it with quotes since spaces within the path might be interpreted as separate options.

They contain thumbnail images of various content on your system. When you hover your mouse over an image in a folder, for example, a thumbnail preview of that image is generated. Windows will store this thumbnail in a thumbcache database for later retrieval should you ever need to preview the image again. They're stored in these databases because it takes less system resources CPU time and memory to retrieve an already generated thumbnail as opposed to generating it every time you view an image.

You'll notice this speed increase if you were to open a folder with a lot of images. If the images have not been stored in a thumbcache database, then the first time opening this folder will be somewhat slow as it has to process all of the images. Any subsequent openings of this folder will be many times quicker. Technically, you shouldn't and generally you can't since they're in use by the system. However, you can remove the thumbnails inside of the thumbcache databases.

To do this you'll need to run the Disk Cleanup utility. When the Disk Cleanup utility starts, you'll be prompted to select a drive to clean. You'll need to select the drive that contains the thumbcache databases it'll usually be the C drive.

Within these results there will be an entry called Thumbnails. Put a check next to it and press OK. Disk Cleanup will then remove the entries in the thumbcache databases. You will need administrator access to do this. Thumbnail creation is a system feature and you'll need to use the Local Group Policy Editor to make changes to it. Open the Start Menu and type the following in the search box: gpedit. You can also type this in the Run command box if you have that option available in the Start Menu.

When this program is run, there will be a tree list on the left side of the window. Once selected, you'll see a list of settings on the right side of the window.

Most of these settings will probably have a state of Not configured.