Windows Vista Explorer Preview pane no longer gives previews

[Wayero]

I don't know why this happened, but for some reason whenever I single click
on a file the preview pane no longer generates a preview of the file. For
files that a preview cannot be generated it still gives me the "no preview
available" message, but for files that a preview should be present the
preview pane just goes blank.

The most common files I use the preview pane for are .txt, .doc, .wmv, and
other image files. Strangely enough, images still show in the pane, but I
have had no luck with other files.

My default program for videos is still Windows Media Player 11 and my
default .txt program is Wordpad [I use Word for .doc].

Is there a way to simply reset this feature or could someone please suggest
a way to remedy the situation?

 

[Wayero]

Yes, I definitely have on all the settings I need to make sure a preview
shows up. As I mentioned image files tend to show up, but text, video, music,
and other files have stopped.

 

[SG]

Brink,

For some strange reason and it only seems to happen on Friday nights, all
the links you post will not load. "Internet Explorer cannot display the
webpage"

I have DSL and everything works fine for all other sites I go to. Server
Maintenance perhaps? Even http://www.vistax64.com will not load.

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I don't know why this happened, but for some reason whenever I single
click
on a file the preview pane no longer generates a preview of the file.
For
files that a preview cannot be generated it still gives me the "no
preview
available" message, but for files that a preview should be present the
preview pane just goes blank.

The most common files I use the preview pane for are .txt, .doc, .wmv,
and
other image files. Strangely enough, images still show in the pane, but
I
have had no luck with other files.

My default program for videos is still Windows Media Player 11 and my
default .txt program is Wordpad [I use Word for .doc].

Is there a way to simply reset this feature or could someone please
suggest
a way to remedy the situation?

Hi Wayero,

Check to make sure that you have "Show preview and filters" dotted in
Step One of this tutorial. I have seen this cause problems like this if
it is not dotted.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/116098-preview-pane-vista-windows-explorer.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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