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Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

(OP)
For the the life of me I cannot figure out why the thumbnails previews will not work in Windows Explorer.  I've ensured that the check box is checked in Solidwork's options menu and done some other checking in WindowsXP.

It is rather odd as I can preview pdfs through the thumbnails.  I have recently upgraded to a new machine with a clean install of Solidworks 2007 SP3, when this problem surfaced.  On the old machine it worked great.  We have this problem on two different machines.

Thanks

Windows XP SP3
Soldiworks 2007 SP3


 

RE: Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

I was excited for a bit because I have the same problem, but that solution does not work because there are no tick-boxes for SW file formats.

Flores

RE: Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

Ah, sorry about that. I hadn't actually tried it; just remembered it was there and posted the link. Lots of other good stuff there, though some of it is getting a bit old.

cheers

RE: Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

There is a file called sldwinshellextu.dll. If that file is not registered in windows, then your Icons will not show up.

You need to register the file through your windows DOS prompt.

Per the SW Knowledge base Solution ID: S-023818

This is located in the SolidWorks shared directory as C:\Program Files\Common Files\SolidWorks Shared\sldwinshellextu.dll. Open Windows Explorer and browse to the file. Once found, go to Start > run and type in "cmd " (without commas) to open the command prompt window.  At the command prompt, type "regsvr32" (without comma) Simply drag the dll file from Windows Explorer window into command prompt window and this should populate the directory path. Press Enter. This should return a message that "DllRegisterServer in .....dll succeeded." The dll will then be properly registered.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

(OP)
Works like I champ thanks.

 

RE: Thumbnail Previews not working in SW07, WinXP

(OP)
Works like a champ thanks.

 

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