Benny Pedersen
April 20th, 2006, 03:03 AM
Announcements (Solution for PSD thumbnails in WinXP)
The file is now freeware, here: http://www.fineraw.com/stuff/overview.html
The PSD (Photoshop Elements) files is shown by Windows XP
as a thumbnail icon picture of a camera :-(
Hmmm, If I remember, then the PSD icon was previous shown as
a picture of a sunflower. But in the "good old days", the thumbnail
icons for PSD files was a small picture of what was inside the file :)
My first reason to visit this Elements News Group, was
that I wanted to find a solution for that problem.
I was able to find and download a DLL file, and I also found
the code to the Registry, and I also figured out the DLL
file should be on a location, definitely.
To help others who do NOT want to mess whit all that, but
only want the nice thumbnails, I simply wrote one file
named "PSD_Thumb.cmd".
Benny Pedersen,
PS:
Technical Description: (if you wish)
Read the CMD file, or read this:
On double click (open), the batch file "PSD_Thumb.cmd"
would create a file in the TEMP environment %TMP%, temp.tmp,
which is used to create 4 other temp files:
C:\TEMP1.TMP
C:\TEMP2.TMP
C:\TEMP3.TMP
C:\TEMP4.TMP
When the result: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\psicon.dll"
is done, the TEMP files is deleted by the CMD file.
Under the building process, CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 values
for the "psicon.dll" file is displayed on screen.
Then the last file is created and executed, %tmp%\temp.reg
When your asked something like this:
"Do you want to put this into your Registry?"
Say Yes.
Finally, all created TEMP files are deleted. The result of the
whole process would be two things. Line numbers 47 ... 60
in "PSD_Thumb.cmd", is written into the Registry, and a DLL file
"psicon.dll", (similar to the DLL download that I found), would be
created in a folder named "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\"
:-)
Benny Pedersen.
The file is now freeware, here: http://www.fineraw.com/stuff/overview.html
The PSD (Photoshop Elements) files is shown by Windows XP
as a thumbnail icon picture of a camera :-(
Hmmm, If I remember, then the PSD icon was previous shown as
a picture of a sunflower. But in the "good old days", the thumbnail
icons for PSD files was a small picture of what was inside the file :)
My first reason to visit this Elements News Group, was
that I wanted to find a solution for that problem.
I was able to find and download a DLL file, and I also found
the code to the Registry, and I also figured out the DLL
file should be on a location, definitely.
To help others who do NOT want to mess whit all that, but
only want the nice thumbnails, I simply wrote one file
named "PSD_Thumb.cmd".
Benny Pedersen,
PS:
Technical Description: (if you wish)
Read the CMD file, or read this:
On double click (open), the batch file "PSD_Thumb.cmd"
would create a file in the TEMP environment %TMP%, temp.tmp,
which is used to create 4 other temp files:
C:\TEMP1.TMP
C:\TEMP2.TMP
C:\TEMP3.TMP
C:\TEMP4.TMP
When the result: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\psicon.dll"
is done, the TEMP files is deleted by the CMD file.
Under the building process, CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 values
for the "psicon.dll" file is displayed on screen.
Then the last file is created and executed, %tmp%\temp.reg
When your asked something like this:
"Do you want to put this into your Registry?"
Say Yes.
Finally, all created TEMP files are deleted. The result of the
whole process would be two things. Line numbers 47 ... 60
in "PSD_Thumb.cmd", is written into the Registry, and a DLL file
"psicon.dll", (similar to the DLL download that I found), would be
created in a folder named "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\"
:-)
Benny Pedersen.