PSD file thumbnail viewing in windows

[es136]

I'm not sure if this has been posted or discussed here before.

PS 7 used to support PSD thumbnail viewing in windows explorer but they have since removed this feature in CS. Adobe's tech support solution is "use the file browser in CS".

this feature was provided by a dll file called psicon.dll. you can enable this by adding the dll file from PS 7 and some registry modification.

a zip file containing the dll and the registry entry and instruction can be downloaded from this site (http://home.earthlink.net/~freeware-soft/ps.cs.t.patch.zip) (this is not my site)

As always backup your registry and use at your own risk. Also you would need to reboot for a registry modification to take effect.

Eddie

[Swampy]

Eddie - You don't have to reboot to do this. After you copy the DLL to the directory you specified you can drop to a command prompt (DOS prompt for old timers like me) and type this (or type it without the path in the directory where the file is):

regsvr32 c:\progra~1\common~1\adobe\shell\psicon.dll

It will come up saying it was loaded, but that it wasn't registered and that it appears not to be a valid DLL or OCX file. But, the main part was that it loaded. :) Works for me. This command line should work under Windows 2000 or XP, not sure about 98 flavors (yuk).

Thanks for the fix though!