Topic awaiting preservation: psd thumbnail icons (Page 1 of 1)

Hi again,
In Windows XP, .psd files have a preview of the file instead of the regular .psd icon. How can I disable the thumbnail icon? All the sites that I've been to only describe how to enable the thumbnail, not disable.

I don't know about Win XP, but in PS you can set/unset the saving of a Image Previews via the Edit > Preferences > File Handling menu.

Actually if you know how to enable the thumbnail, disabling them shouldn't be tricky. Just uncheck a tickbox, or use another value ( if that's something in the registry )

Hope that helps,

On several sites that I visited, they said that Photoshop CS doesn't have the ability to have thumbnail icons. To get it, you need a certain file. Photoshop 7 comes with that file. So I removed that file, but the thumbnails are still there.

Here's a picture to clarify:



(Edited by qwertyuiop on 07-11-2005 06:21)

You should try to register the file type to another program, to hopefuly force a certain icon on them, then re-register them to PhotoShop.

As poi mentioned above, you can set photoshop to not save an image preview, which would then cause the icon to be used.

Can't help beyond that...

Hmmm.... I tried both of poi's suggestions, but they don't work. The image preview disabling through photoshop doesn't work (isn't that only for within photoshop?), and registering .psd files to another program doesn't work. It still uses the thumbnail icon....

I'm gonna look around for more advice, and maybe post on a photoshop forum...

Have you tried to "force" the icons via an explorer : Tools > Folder's Options > File Types then select the PSD, go in Advanced and set another icon.

Yeah, that's what I did. Maybe I should try restarting the computer after changing the icon. EDIT- doesn't work

EDIT: actually, the icon I want is already selected, but it's just replaced with the thumbnail.

(Edited by qwertyuiop on 07-12-2005 00:05)

HAve you tried to do a search and destroy on psicon.dll?

Pierre Courtejoie

It is not photoshop that is creating and displaying the icon. It is Windows, and you have to turn it on or off from there.

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All the sites that I've been to only describe how to enable the thumbnail, not disable.

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What are the directions you have for enabling the thumbnail? Or do you have a link to the instructions for how to do this?

you have tried simply renaming the psicon.dll ? or removing the registry reference described in http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cacheP2ZeUHhzwQJ:www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/TAIO-68UEVH+photoshop+windows+icon+thumbnail&hl=en ?

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My word!!! But what has that got to do with PSD thumbnail icons TP?

Cheers,

Here's the link that Tyberius Prime posted (un-cached): http://www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/TAIO-68UEVH

Here's what I tried:

• I removed psicon.dll from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\ (and I made a copy of it somewhere else, just in case)
• .psd files are already using the icon that I want, but it seems the thumbnail overrides that

sPECtre: what's search and destroy? do you mean spybot?

I haven't tried any registry stuff..... I dont know how to do that stuff.

I'm going to try renaming it right now....

Thanks for all the help so far.

(Edited by qwertyuiop on 07-12-2005 20:42)

Right click 'My Computer.'
Locate Folder
Left click folder (this is where you see all the thumbnails you don't want. (correct?)

Now go to 'View' on the Menu Bar and change the setting from 'Thumbnail' to either 'List' or 'Details.'

NOW go into Control Panel.
Open 'Folder Options.'
Under the 'View' Tab check both
"Do not cache Thumbnails"
"Remember each folder's view settings."

Reboot.

NoJive: I don't expect that to help - as far as I understood, the ps thumbnails actually replace the icons and have little to do with thumbnail view in explorer itself.

I meant to search for that dll, and remove it from its current location. with the dll removed, there should not be any thumbnail, at least for newer images.

Pierre Courtejoie

On my computer, I display files with the "List" command in the Explorer and it doesn't replace the PS icon. It does replace it though, when I select "Thumbnails" in the Explorer. I use XP Professional. It behaves like this with all files. Jpg, png etc etc. It doesn't load the thumbnail at all until I command it to do it.

I am using the default settings for Photoshop. I know that isn't of much help, but I just wanted to let you know.

Hmm.... something weird happened. A few days ago, I renamed psicon.dll to something else. I forgot about it until I checked it just now. The .psd thumbnails are gone now, but the .psd files aren't using the icon I want them to use. They are using the default Windows icon.

Sigh....

PS is doing a little startup tweak, i think. It must be hidden in the registry, somewhere.

now that you have renamed the file, you must have made a broken link in the registry. If you have a registry cleaner you can probably find out where that is and figure something out. All the shell integration stuff should be there.

Photoshop does the same thing here. It never bothered me. a program that can make other image files behave the same way - change their icon to their own image - is irfan view. Although it does not do that for .psd files. Actually, without a plugin or shell integration, you cant preview photoshop files even on windows Thumbnails View

I don't know how to mess with the registry. I'll just have to live with this, for now.

Thanks for all the help.

In Windows Explorer or My Computer click on Tools-->Folder Options.

Click on the File Types tab

Scroll down until you see the PSD extension and hi-lite it.

Click on Advanced

Click on Change Icon.

This should allow you to reset the icon to what ever you want it to be from a list of icons extracted from the program associated with that file type

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-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.

The icons are really glitchy/buggy. Sometimes the icon is the briefcase icon, sometimes it's the default Windows icon, and sometimes is back to the thumbnail! And sometimes, there are two different icons for two .psd files on the desktop. And I just did what hyperbole said (although I already did that before), and the icon changed to a 7-Zip icon!

This is really pissing my off. I don't think Photoshop 6 was like this, only 7.