A part of Windows I never understood was image thumbnail previews. This feature is awesome in Vista (and XP), and supports most commonly used formats. If you want to preview TIFF or PSD files however (still pretty common) you will not succeed.
Some clever people have developed a freeware solution to this problem, adding more file types to the preview list. The page boasts 19 image types, which includes the 4-5 already native to Windows, but this is still pretty cool. The best part is that it isn’t a script or an app running in the background, but rather a shell extension, and is only called upon when needed.
Personally I get quite bothered if I have 20 pics in a folder, out of which I can preview 18, but not the other two. This is probably due to my organization and productivity Ninja senses. I think this is a small, lightweight solution to an equally small, but nagging problem, so it’s worth the try. Just one quick note, on the download page Vista support is not yet official and sure enough, it didn’t work for me. Apparently it either works or it doesn’t, but on XP it’s definitely ok.
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