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Utility to Make Windows Vista Explorer Preview Work for More File Types

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Utility to Make Windows Vista Explorer Preview Work for More File Types

Trying to make Windows Vista Explorer show previews for more file types used to be a pain and involved playing around with the registry. At www.mintywhite.com, we like to do things the easiest way possible, and that’s exactly what we’ll do with this hack.

PreviewConfig

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The PreviewConfig utility for Windows Vista is extremely simple to use. Once you open the program, a list of filetypes populates in the left-hand pane, and on the right, you may select the preview type. And… you’re done.

Selecting media will use Windows Media Player to render a preview for the file type. Files like .mkv (an alternative to .avi - primarily used for HD video) can be decoded by Windows Media Player with the right plugins, but will not render automatically in Windows Vista. Selecting plain text will show a text preview for the file.

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One Response to “Utility to Make Windows Vista Explorer Preview Work for More File Types”

  1. Olivia says:

    thx

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