RAW preview codec that actually works!

alohadave · 09-15-2009, 09:48 PM

Fast Picture Viewer | WIC Codec Pack for Windows 7, Vista and XP

I just installed this codec pack to allow Windows to display the preview thumbnail in Explorer. It works great! I've tried several ways to get them to display, but I was never able to get them to work.

WheresWaldo · 09-15-2009, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by alohadave

Fast Picture Viewer | WIC Codec Pack for Windows 7, Vista and XP

I just installed this codec pack to allow Windows to display the preview thumbnail in Explorer. It works great! I've tried several ways to get them to display, but I was never able to get them to work.

Finally one that works in 64bit Vista

Great find!

*imtheguy* · 09-15-2009, 11:18 PM

You are the man today! I just d/l'ed and installed, it works like a charm on my vista-64 machine. You just simplified my nightly culling of 50-100 RAW+ images. Thank you.

gamgee · 09-16-2009, 02:35 AM

Bingo! good find aloha!

Cloggie_UK · 09-16-2009, 05:29 AM

And I can confirm it works on the 64bit retail version of Windows 7 as well. I was a bit worried it might not as when I upgraded from the pre-release to the retail version, I had quite a few incompatiblility problems with software and drivers. Nothing that couldn't be resolved but I wasn't sure these codecs had been tested on the retail version.

netuser · 09-16-2009, 05:51 AM

Nice news.

Let's install

wasser · 09-16-2009, 09:53 AM

Yay! Thumbnails in Vista 64.

Arpe · 09-16-2009, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by alohadave

Fast Picture Viewer | WIC Codec Pack for Windows 7, Vista and XP

I just installed this codec pack to allow Windows to display the preview thumbnail in Explorer. It works great! I've tried several ways to get them to display, but I was never able to get them to work.

How much did you get for the testimonial on the front page?

krypticide · 09-16-2009, 07:27 PM

Any performance hit? I remember a codec for Vista that caused Windows Search to bog down due to all the metadata it was trying to index.

alohadave · 09-16-2009, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Arpe

How much did you get for the testimonial on the front page?

I wish.

Two of those lines are me.

Cloggie_UK · 09-17-2009, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by krypticide

Any performance hit? I remember a codec for Vista that caused Windows Search to bog down due to all the metadata it was trying to index.

Turn Windows Search off. It's a waste of space and resources. Try Everything Search. Indexes in a couple of seconds and searches are instant as you type the search string.

Arpe · 09-17-2009, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Cloggie_UK

Turn Windows Search off. It's a waste of space and resources. Try Everything Search. Indexes in a couple of seconds and searches are instant as you type the search string.

Got a link for that - it's a tricky one to search for!

THAN THE SWORD · 09-17-2009, 08:28 PM

Thank you alohadave....

It had bugged for as long as I have had my K10D that I couldn't see the RAW images in Window. And now thanks to you I can. I didn't realize that there was anything to correct the situation. But now that I am aware of this kind of fix I want more.....

Is there anything similar that would allow you to see Adobe .psd files? Or any of the other formats you can save in but not see in Windows? Sometimes I don't want to open Bridge just to look at something.

Not to be ungrateful, but now I want everything....,.

Cloggie_UK · 09-18-2009, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by Arpe

Got a link for that - it's a tricky one to search for!

Download Everything

Cloggie_UK · 09-18-2009, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by THAN THE SWORD

Thank you alohadave....

It had bugged for as long as I have had my K10D that I couldn't see the RAW images in Window. And now thanks to you I can. I didn't realize that there was anything to correct the situation. But now that I am aware of this kind of fix I want more.....

Is there anything similar that would allow you to see Adobe .psd files? Or any of the other formats you can save in but not see in Windows? Sometimes I don't want to open Bridge just to look at something.

Not to be ungrateful, but now I want everything....,.

Well, previewing .psd files in Windows Explorer were handled by older versions of Photoshop (by a .dll file called psicon.dll). For some reason, the support for .psd's was dropped in later versions of Photoshop.

You can still find a copy of it here:

psicon.dll download - free dll files

You need to copy this .dll file to: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\

Let me know if it works for you.