Re: thumbnail in My Pictures folder just show as an icon

> Thankyou for your help - this worked for all but the Tiff image, untill I
> realised that I had been saving my Tiff images in a zipped format!
>
> "Yves Alarie" wrote:
>

> > Click on Start and click on Run and type the following in the textbox:
> > REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
> > and press the Enter key.
> > You will get a "success" message.
> > Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI...
> > Then, right click on a jpg and click on Open with on the opening menu.

> > on Choose program at the bottom of the list. A window will open, select
> > Windows Picture and Fax viewer and check the box "Always...."
> > You may have to do the same right click with tif and gif. For Raw, you

> > your PE 3. Windows picture and fax viewer cannot open Raw files.
> > "krys" <krys@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:3701AF1F-CF79-422F-8264-4429B3ACFC33@microsoft.com...

> > > If I save images as a JPEG in my pictures I am able to see a the

> > > the thumbnail - however if I save in any other format Tiff, Gif, Raw

> > all

> > > I see is the icon for the format saved. Is there any way I can get My
> > > Pictures to show the image. Also if I try to open the image in Windows
> > > Picture and Fax view I get the message "No preview available". This

> > happens

> > > to all images whether imported from camera, scanner or produced on

> > graphics

> > > program. The only way I can veiw the photos is to open them with Adobe
> > > photoshop elements V3 or one of my other graphics programs which is a

> > of

> > > a nuisance when I want to flip through the images quickly.
> > >
> > > Thanks in anticipation for any advice

> >
> >
> >