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ThumbView Lite 1

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Price: Free
Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
Date added: December 23, 2005
Total Downloads: 2,516
Downloads last week: 19
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CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 2 votes
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This program enhances the Windows Explorer thumbnail view feature by extending the types of files Windows supports. Thumbview has no interface for the user to worry about. Users quickly install the program, and it automatically runs (when called on by Windows) as a shell extension (COM) to support 19 additional file types. Though it would be nice to have support for EPS and AI files, this is a useful, and free, utility for users who want to extend the types of file extensions the Windows thumbnail view supports.

Publisher's description

From John-Philip Johansson :

ThumbView enables thumbnails and tool tips in MS-Windows Explorer for file types that are not natively supported. An amazing 19 image types are supported, namely: cut, dcx, dds, mdl, mng, pcd, pcx, pic, pix, png, pnm/pbm/pgm/ppm, psd/pdd, psp, pxr, sgi/rgb, tga/vda/icb/vst, tif/tiff, wal, and xpm. The program is not run as a process and will not consume CPU time; it is a shell extension (COM) called by Windows when it wants to display a thumbnail.

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Version: ThumbView Lite 1

"Simple pero eficiente"

by xerhyo on July 26, 2006

Pros: Se pueden ver las imagenes de los formatos que antes de instalar el progama, windows no reconocÃ?Âa.
No requiere reiniciar windows
Se instala rÃ?Â¡pido
Se descarga rÃ?Â¡pido

Cons: No he tenido problema alguno con el

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Version: ThumbView Lite 1

"Great program, more users need to know of this!"

by electronicsglorious on May 12, 2008

Pros: This software is a great addition to those who are editing and searching through multiple media files. I personally don't want to use a "image" explorer. Windows is what I use and I want to continue with that, this works perfect for it.

Cons: Nothing.

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