No preview, thumbnails, or search in Windows Explorer 64 bit Vista

No preview in Windows Explorer for 64-bit Vista... is this supposed to be fixed in 8.1.2? Also, can't perform Windows Searches against the contents of PDF files, and the majority of PDF thumbnails are not showing up in Explorer. Not interested in using Tim Heuer/Foxit because it crashes frequently and doesn't deal with searches or thumbnails.
I assume all these problems are related to 64-bit--when can we expect a fix?

There is no fix - the pdfshell driver doesn't support x64 Windows.

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