No PSD thumbnails in Elements 12

Since I upgraded from 11 I've lost the ability to see the PSD thumbnails in either Organizer or Editor. Help.

In your Folder Options under View, do you have Always show icons, never thumbnails checked?
What is the other file type that does seem to have a thumbnail?
Is that in the File>Open dialog in the photoshop elements 12 editor?

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MSExplorer wrote:.Why is Elements creating these thumbnails in the first place?
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\AIIcon.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}\MiscStatus]
"IconBits"="16"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ai\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ai\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eps\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eps\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex\Ic onHandler]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex\Pr opertySheetHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex\Pr opertySheetHandlers\AIPage]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex\Ico nHandler]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex\Pro pertySheetHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex\Pro pertySheetHandlers\AIPage]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs]
"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\psicon.dll"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psd\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psd\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}]
@="Photoshop Icon Handler"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\psicon.dll"
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Thumbnails in Elements 6 Look Slightly Fuzzy

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I just did a comparison of Windows Live Photo Gallery (the updated version that you need to download) and PSE 7. It seems that the relative sharpness of thumbnails varies as you change thumbnail sizes, and that sometimes WLPG was sharper and sometimes PSE 7 sharper. If you have a blatant example of Photo Gallery looking much sharper, perhaps you could upload a screen shot of both at www.pixentral.com and post the URL here.
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Free PSD Thumbnail reviewer for win 7 explorer

Hi,
I have CS5 and use Win7- Ultimate-64bit.
What is the free approache to preview PSD files' thumbnails in windows explorer?
Thanks . . .

Google is your friend.
There seem to be plenty of options, lots of them not needing commercial extra software. Many of them are hacks with unknown effects and more for the proficient user. But obviously this issue has been solved for many users already.
http://www.google.de/search?q=psd+thumbnails+windows+explorer

.psd thumbnails

How can I view the thumbnail picture on a .psd file in CS6. All I get is a blue box with psd/PS on it instead of the picture that's on that file. This is very annoying because if I'm looking for a specific .psd file I have to look on my picture viewing software, find out what the file name is and then pull it up on photoshop. I have CS3 and I have no problem seeing the picture.

eklojoe wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question Trevor, it's much
appreciated, but it doesn't fix my problem. I have Fast Stone Image Viewer,
Bridge and Explorer and there is no problem viewing the .psd thumbnails, I was
wondering why I can't view them on CS6. There is no problem at all viewing
That's because the File > Open dialog does not belong to Photoshop, it belongs to Windows. The blue icon is the result of removing a file that wrote the thumbnails because of problems on some systems.
Photoshop had a file called "psicon.dll" that wrote the thumbnails at the OS level but on some systems there were "file locking" problems and Adobe took it out. Since then Adobe and Microsoft have not been able come to an agreement as to who should do what.
You can blame Adobe or Microsoft all you want, but you won't get .psd thumbnails at the OS level. I know, I tried for a year and that was years ago. That's why I went with FPV.
The software I linked you to are "codecs". Upon install they produce .psd thumbnails in Windows so that you can see them when you use File > Open as an example.
Give FPV a try and let me know what you think. Or go with sagethumbs as Trevor recommended.
Yes it does fix the thumbnail problem.
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Viewing PSD thumbnails...

Hi,
So sick of not being able to view PSD thumbnails, not even from the regular "OPEN FILE" dialog in Photoshop CS6.
Besides 3rd party commercial software like Mystic Thumbs, what solutions are out there for me?
Thanks.

Looks like a cool app. To bad Microsft decided to make it harder to find the codecs. Anyway, the system is Approx. a year old. Its possible another app installed the codec with it.
OK, downloaded and ran it. The only thing I can think of which I totally forgot about was the Canon Raw codec. Other than that just Microsoft is listed.
Ah, jeesh I overlooked it, the psd codec is from Microft apparently it came on my system. It's dated 2010 which would explain why 2012 files don't display, but the 2007 should have. Must be behind a version when they created it.
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FYI, I am running Win XP Pro 32 Bit
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated, thanks!

For future readers of this thread (e.g., those who might find it through a search):
The psicon.dll fix listed in the link posted above will ONLY work on a 32 bit system.
There is no free solution for 64 bit systems (e.g., Windows 7 x64) at this time, so if you have an x64 system don't waste your time trying it. Commercial software must be purchased to do the job. There are several good packages out there.
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