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Enable or Disable Thumbnail Preview in Windows Explorer for PDF files

By default PDF thumbnail preview on windows explorer is not active. But you can activate thumbnails preview in windows explorer by editing registry entry. I tested this tips on Windows XP only. I don’t know this tips work on windows Vista/ Windows 7 or not. After this feature enable on your computer, you can view the PDF file like view Image on your windows Explorer.

For comparison between thumbnail preview activate or not on windows explorer you view the following picture:

How to activate thumbnail preview for PDF files. Its simple you can follow these steps:

Methode 1

• Open registry editor and navigate to this regestry key: “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | AcroExch.Document.7 | Shellex”
• Create new regestry key named “{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}”
• Double click default string in right pane, modifi the regestry value and replace the value with “ {F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}”.

Methode 2

• Open notepad
• Write this entry in the notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\Shellex\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@=”{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}”

• Click file save as, in the save as type set to all files.
• In the file names type, write the file name with reg extention (e.g “pdfpreview.reg”, “pdfthumnaild.reg or etc) then save the file.
• Double click the file to activate pdf thumnails.

Note:

• You may need restart to take effect this regestry key.
• To disable this feature delete the key named “{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}”