| If you have a folder on your hard drive that includes
pictures or graphics, you can preview these images in a "Thumbnail"
view. Thumbnails are small pictures the size of wallet
size prints. This
process works well if you have mastered creating your
own personal folders in (C:) Drive or what ever drive you
are storing files and folders on. If you have a problem
with working in Windows Explorer then you might want to
check out the tutorials on "Create A Folder
1
,
2
, and
3
" first. Find these tutorials on Beemer's Windows Tips
To View In Thumbnail View:
| 1. |
Right click on Start |
| 2. |
Left click on Explore |
| 3. |
Right click on the folder with the pictures in it, (My folder is called Beemer's Photo Album) and select Properties, Enable Thumbnail View. |
| 4. |
Click OK |
| 5. |
Right click on the folders workspace (to the right of "Folders") |
| 6. |
Left Click on Refresh |
| 7. |
Now right click on the folders workspace and select View and Thumbnails. |
| 8. |
You now should have all your pictures showing in Thumbnail view. |
| 9. |
Each time you enter this folder, you have the option of viewing your files in Thumbnails. |
Beemer's Tip:
Create a Desktop Shortcut
If you
would like to have the folder that contains your
images available on your Windows Desktop, open
Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder with your
images. Right click on the folder and left click on
"Send " and "To Desktop As Shortcut".
You will find this new shortcut on your Desktop. If
you don't want the prefix, "Shortcut To",
you can rename your desktop photo album to any name
you would prefer by right clicking on the photo album
shortcut and select, "Rename".
Another
Little Tip:
Open with a Maximized
window
With this shortcut
you can have it open to a "maximized"
window by right clicking on the photo album shortcut
and selecting properties. You will get an information
box for this shortcut. Near the bottom of this box
you will see Run: Use the drop arrow to the right to
find Maximized and click on Maximized. From now on
when you open your Photo Album from the Desktop it
will be full screen.
Another Little Tip:
Open Picture In Full Screen View
Click
on Start, Settings, Folder Options. Click on the
thumb tab that reads "File Types". Hit the
letter "j" on your keyboard and you should
reveal "JPEG image". If not, scroll down 1
or 2 items to find it and click on it. Click on the
Edit button to the right. Click on "Open"
in the "Actions:" window and click on Edit
below. You will now have a screen that looks like
this:
Here
is the text of each line so that you can swipe and
copy to paste into your appropriate slots.
| "C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe" -nohome |
| "file:%1",,-1,,,,, |
| IExplore |
| WWW_OpenURL |
The -nohome
entry added to the end of the Application used to
perform this action information slot is the
difference.
If you have
PhotoShop installed on your machine, you are in for a
fight to get these settings to stick. I dislike MGI
programming myself just because their programs tend
to take over your computer.
The "-nohome"
entry is removed when you use the
Internet Explorer Repair Tool so you will have to add the -nohome
entry after using the I.E. Repair Tool.
Follow these instructions to apply to GIF image as well.
And Another!:
(Caution: This tip can create some minor graphics problems)
View Thumbnails of Bitmap Files (.bmp) 9x and NT
Windows does not
automatically support thumbnail view for .bmp files.
If you would like to have this feature activated you
need to do a little registry hacking. But first you must
Backup Your Registry.
Navigate to the key
below and modify the value of (Default) to equal '%1'.
| Go To: |
|
| Key: |
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture\DefaultIcon |
| Value Name: |
(Default) |
| Data Type: |
REG_SZ
(String Value) |
| Data: |
%1 |
For
example, the setting will look like:
 |
(Default) |
"%1" |
Looking Good!
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