How to get the pspimage thumbnail previews to show up in Windows 7

How to get the pspimage thumbnail previews to show up in Windows 7

On 12.14.10, In Quick Tips, by torQQue

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit edition. After upgrading and installing Corel Paint Shop Pro, I noticed that I could no longer view thumbnails of pspimages in Windows Explorer. See below to resolve this issue.

For whatever reason, Windows 7 doesn’t render thumbnails for some image extensions. It was really annoying having to open every pspimage in Paint Shop Pro just to preview what file I wanted to work with. This led to me researching a solution. In the process, I found an effective little program/utility called “PSP Thumbnail Handler” developed by Bot Productions. This utility will restore the thumbnail preview function for Paint Shop Pro pspimages in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and other versions suffering from this problem.

Step 1

Go to http://www.botproductions.com/pspthumb/index.html and download the version for your Windows version. For example, if you are using a 64 bit Windows make sure to download the x64 edition, otherwise download the 32bit version that matches your Windows version.

Step 2

Install PSP Thumbnail Handler and reboot Windows.

Step 3

If your pspimage thumbnails are still not showing up after the reboot, then you need to follow the next couple of steps.

Step 4

Click Organize > Layout, and then check “Menu bar” on.

Step 5

Next, Go to Tools > Folder Options, and click the View Tab. Make sure “Always show icons, never thumbnails” is unchecked.

Step 6

Click on the “change your view” button in the top right corner and set the preview to Medium Icons or larger. Currently, does not work in Small Icons view.

Finally we have Paint Shop Pro Thumbnail previews.

torQQue

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11 Responses

Chordian

12.16.2010

Excellent. I just installed this and rebooted and it works. Thanks.

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1.24.2011

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MsStormy

2.26.2011

I have a friend “HOOTY”, that also stated this however, he did state “when the version is saved in the option as a version 5 you must re-save it in the option as a 7. So you it can see it in the older versions. just a little fyi it is awesome to see everything again!!!!

Adam Johnsan

3.8.2011

Excellent. thanks for oyur post.

Dean Andersen

3.15.2011

Thanks for the tip. This software works as advertised. I’m running Win 7 Professional 64 bit.

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4.9.2011

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6.14.2011

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Jim B

7.14.2011

Downloaded and installed and thumbnails show correctly. I have two questions. I’m using Win 7. In windows explorer there is a preview pane and the pspimages do not show in it. Do I need more software? and where can I get it?

Thanks, Jim