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Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5 file preview in windows 7/ Vista/ Explorer

March 30th, 2010 by Rakesh Bhardwaj


Have you ever faced  any problem while working with in Adobe Photoshop as preview of .psd files are missing in Windows explorer.  While the preview of other image file formats Jpg, Png, Bmp etc. are OK. Now there is nothig need to worry as there is solution available.  This is happening because ADOBE has removed their .psd file preview extension from Windows Registry in favour of their Adobebridge software and it made many of the photoshop users in irritation. Now you don’t need to do any coomplex modificatiopn to any of windows registry or have to load any application, they just only removed a DLL file and registry link. They can be fixed by providing these missing files. Just download the attached Zip file and Follow the instruction. You will get your thumbnail preview of the psd files back.

1) Copy psicon.dll to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell if this folder doesn’t exist create it.
2) Run Adobe.reg
3) You now can view PSD files in thumbnail view within explorer.

You can download these files from link below.

http://www.ziddu.com/download/9471100/AdobePreview.zip.html

For any trouble plz let me know i will try to give you a solution.

One Response to “Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5 file preview in windows 7/ Vista/ Explorer”

  1. Maisha Dottavio Says:

    Great post, thanks for sharing. Keep up the fantastic work and keep em coming

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