I am curious if there is a way to see thumbnails for more than the default file types (i.e. GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG) in Windows 7. I tend to use other formats like DNG, CRW, CR2, TIFF, etc., and sadly, Windows does not support thumbnail previews of these images by default.
I used to use a few registry hacks in previous version of windows, however they no longer seem to work for Vista/7. I currently run Windows 7 64bit.
Answer
Fast Picture Viewer is $9.99 and works just fine on 64-bit Windows 7 (I'm using it myself).
You can also install the 32-bit codec and then view the folder with Windows Live Photo Gallery, which will generate the thumbnails for you. Other applications, like Explorer, will then be able to use these thumbnails - but you'll have to reopen WLPG every time you add any new files. IMHO, this is an enormous amount of faffing about, just to save $10...
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