*Some* TIFFs not being displayed as thumbnails

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

After installing Office 2003, I found that GIFs were not being displayed as
thumbnails in Explorer windows. With the help of another MVP and reference
to KB24301, "Cannot View Thumbnail Image," I was able to create (or rebuild)
the required Registry keys to solve this problem (which is caused by
uninstalling Microsoft Photo Editor, which is removed when you install
Office 2003).

Now I have a similar but more puzzling problem. Yesterday I scanned some
images into Corel PhotoPaint and saved them as TIFFs. They are not being
displayed as thumbnails, though existing TIFFs are. I have examined the file
properties of both, and they appear identical. I found the .tif and .tiff
branches of the Registry, and the required ShellEx key already existed and
had the exact same values I had supplied for .gif. There was also a ShellNew
key, for which I supplied the same values. None of this has made any
difference.

If it is helpful, the designated program to open this file type was
Microsoft Document Imaging, but even when I changed this to Corel
PhotoPaint, there was no difference.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Since no one seems to have any ideas, I guess I'll just have to reinstall
Photo Editor. <sigh>

 

[perian]

Exactly what the rest of us have done long ago. PhE is a simple but
effective program quick to perform some common tasks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The thing is that Photo Editor has supposedly been replaced in Office 2003
by some whizbang new applet.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

FWIW, I reinstalled Photo Editor, and it didn't help. I am still not seeing
thumbnails for these few TIFFs created with PhotoPaint from scans.

 

[perian]

My guess:
*.tif is now (Word2003) associated with "Microsoft Document Imaging", even
it was created by PhE or Imaging. I do have an .inf file to change
Registry, most likely its too old. Still I´m searching to find a speciel
generic sentence in Registry.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What I don't understand is why most TIFFs are displaying; the only ones that
aren't are these few that I created the other day. Similarly, the JPEGs I
created are causing printing problems. I'm beginning to suspect a problem
with the (HP) scanner used to scan the images in the first place.

 

[perian]

A few facts:

I´m running a dual-boot Win98-WIN2K on two HD´s ea. 20GB.

One shared partition is filled with images, the main part scanned from dias
else it´s digi-photos from my camera. At some time I preferred .tif´s else
..BMP´s while recent ones was created as JPG/Fif.

Usually I run W2K where there is a Photo Editor which is poorly installed
but .tif´s opens fine. However I also have noted no thumbnails from .tif.
I´ve managed to associate them with Imaging who at least know the word
Thumbs.

If I change to WIN98, PhE. is associated with .tif, there´s thumbnails to
all. When I look at the shared partition all the .tif´s have another icon,
when I look at the prroperties it says Quick View Enabled. When I look in
the folder options there´s a checkbox::enabling thumbnails

For me its obvious who´s to blame.

perian

 

[perian]

Hey
In short, if you didn´t notice this tread in WIN2000 General, it might be
interesting:
GIF files do not show in thumbnail view.

EOD from me
perian

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I had the problem with GIF files to begin with and solved it by hacking the
Registry as described in KB24301, "Cannot View Thumbnail Image," as
mentioned in my original post.