Illustrator icon

I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS3.
Before I upgraded my illustrator to CS3 vision this is never happen. Now I cannot able to preview image from the illustrator file icon. Usually after we have saved the file as a .ai format file, the icon of this file is showing what it is in the file, but now I only get the AI icon that I cannot get any preview without use Adobe Bridge.
Can anyone able to help me with this problem?
Thanks

From which version did you upgrade?
The Illustrator thumbnail preview in Explorer was removed and has been unavailable for a couple of versions now. Apparently, there were issues with Windows that could not be worked around by Adobe.
Bridge is the answer.
"CS3 - no thumbnail previews" #1, 20 Feb 2008 9:25 am
"Viewing illustrator thumbnails in Windows" #1, 26 Oct 2007 5:27 pm
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc41d08/0

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