Announcements (How to get PSD thumbnails)

[Benny Pedersen]

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.

[Robyn]

Ah Benny.......if only we spoke the same language!

Welcome to the forum Benny. I'm sure this means a lot to most people, but being fairly non-technical, it's another language to me. Nice to have you aboard though, it sounds like you are going to be a great help to a lot of people.

[Ward Grant]

Benny

I'm sure many users will find this very useful. I have sent the dll file and instructions on changing the registry to several people who are looking for this functionality. Your way will be much easier.

Ward

[Daviskw]

Sounds interesting Benny

Robyn...Ward.. run it and let me know if your computer starts smoking.. ...love to see my PSD thumbs

Butch

[Jodi Frye]

Again, I will say this as this comes up often on the boards...

the file in question ' psicon.dll ' was purposely removed form Elements and Photoshop due to conflicts with Explorer which could cause you to lose files indefinietly. Use 'psicon.dll ' at own risk.

[Juergen D]

Notwithstanding Jodi's warning, I can report that I installed 'psicon' some months ago and there are no problems.

Juergen

[Jodi Frye]

Juergen, yup, I've always had it installed with PS7..I never did lose my thumbnail view. So far I don't think I've had any problems either. Tho I do back up all my photos to disc...

[Benny Pedersen]

Me too.

Anyway, I just did an extended inspection on that.
The file named "doGif.BAT" on http://2dos.homepage.dk/tweak/tweak.htm
would create 3 GIF files for testing the Explorer bug.
Microsoft did not fix that bug for GIF and JPG files.
My conclution is that the problem still existing but no problems
with PSD files. The facts is good news: Using the "psicon.dll" is more secure than using GIF or JPG thumbs If your not sure, then just try the exercise that I wrote on my old Homepage (
http://2dos.homepage.dk/tweak/clip0002.avi
)

Benny Pedersen,