scelli
Native New Yorker
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Houston, TX
| [Vista] Image Viewer for Explorer
I used a program called PicaView 2.0 for many years on Win 95 and then later with XP Pro. It's a Windows Explorer add-on that functions as an image viewer: by right-clicking on a .jpg, .bmp etc. file, you can view the picture. I re-installed the app after moving to Vista Ultimate, however it apparently isn't compatible with this new OS. No surprise I suppose as the program is pretty ancient.
Anyone know of another prog (either freeware or inexpensive shareware) that might be out there I can use in place of PicaView?
TIA! |
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darcilicious
Cyber Librarian
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Forest Grove, OR | Vista comes with a default "Preview" action that shows up when you right click on image files... does that not do what you need? |
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DownTheShore
Obama '08
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Edison, NJ
clubs: | I did not know that - thanks. |
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Fedorov
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PicaView 2.0 was great - I've been running it with Vista since Vista was released. The trick was to copy in a couple of DLL files that PicaView needed, sorry I don't recall exactly what I did so long ago, it just works.
The Vista "Preview" is not quite the same, the whole point of PicaView is to be able to instantly see a small preview of the image with just ONE right-click, it appears inside your context menu. The Vista Preview you refer to requires the right-click and then another click to select Preview and then it has to load the Vista image viewer to show you the image... nowhere near as fast an convenient.
If you can't get PicaView to work then I highly recommend XnView »www.xnview.com
Make sure you download the Shell Extension, as this gives you the SAME instant preview INSIDE your right-click context menus as you had with PicaView - I've attached an image of what my context menu looks like when right-clicking on a jpeg file  |
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scelli
Native New Yorker
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Houston, TX
| Great! That's exactly what I was looking for...I'm going to do some research and see if there's any articles out there about the DLL issue. I'm also going to check out the other program you mentioned in case no PicaView fix can be found. As you probably already know, ACD stopped developing their PicaView app a while back, so their website is of no help in the matter.
Thanks to all! |
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Fedorov
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No problem. If I remember correctly it needed a certain DLL that didn't exist on Vista in the \windows\ folder. I just explored my Acronis TrueImage backup of my previous XP installation, found the file and copied it in  |
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cvrefugee
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Corona, CA | reply to scelli
I would think enabling thumbnails is a lot easier that right-clicking every time, but what do I know! |
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richter35
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Croatia
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XnView Shell Extension maybe?
Another option is »free.firmtools.com/shellextension/
It doesn't state it's Vista compatible. You can always try it and uninstall it if it doesn't work.
If it something you must have and above doesn't work (Xn should work) then check out commercial soltuions at »www.contextmagic.com/ |
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scelli
Native New Yorker
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join:1999-08-07
Houston, TX
| Installed XnView and it seems to be working A-OK so far.
BTW: it's a neat little freebie!
(OT, but a NYR fan in Crotia? I grew up in the 1960's listening to the Rangers on radio and occasionaly watching their road games on WOR-TV. Back then they were the only hockey team in town, but I've been a lifelong Isles fan since they were born in 1972!) |
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richter35
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Croatia
| Isles fan.  j/k
I always watched hockey during Olympics when I was a kid. It did not hit me until 2002. I was glued to TV during the tournament. I was impressed with the USA team and supported it. Of course, "everyone" was for Canada (because of Sakic). Then started to read/follow NHL results and got into it. Some of my friends are into it as well. Bro tends to ask me for an opinion when he's betting. Too bad you can't watch NHL around here (only a few games on cable). |
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