Windows Thumbnail Support for Adobe Photoshop CS3 PSD
Many designers use programs such as ACDSEE to preview their thumbnails for PSD’s. Sometimes you don’t want to use the extra resource’s or you just want to see the thumbnails of your PSD’s in regular Windows Explore.
There is an easy fix to enable Windows to make thumbnails for your PSD’s which doesn’t require a lot of resources. They will thumbnail just like any other photo would on your PC.
1. Download this file to a temporary folder.
2. Shut down all Adobe programs.
3. Set a ’system return point’ to allow you to rollback the changes should anything go wrong (if your system supports it)
3. Unzip it to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Shell. You could quite likely already have either of the DLL files. No matter. (You must already have PhotoShop or this folder will not exist. This fix will not work unless photoshop is installed.)
4. Run ‘aiicon.dll.reg’ by double clicking it.
5. Run ‘psicon.dll.reg’ by double clicking it.
Thats it. Reboot and it should be working. This has been tested for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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This does not work with Adobe Photoshop CS3, only CS2 and possibly CS1.
I think where it said
“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Shell”
its supposed to say
“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell”
The shell folder was in CS2, but is not present in CS3.
Hmm, I made a comment but i dont see it.
Anyways, if my comment does appear, disregard it.
“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Shell”
should be
“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell”
In cs3, the folder needs to be created. Only psicon.dll needs to be copied.
So did it work for you?
If so, how do you like this feature?