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Thumbnail View of PhotoShop 6 files in Windows7
Just two days ago I purchased a new Pavilion HP with an 8 G memory and 750 HardDrive.
My old HP with XP just bit the dust and rather than spend $200 fixing it,(only a 512 M with a 160 HD) I decided to buy something new.
I was seriously considering wiping any new PC clean of Vista and installing XP which I am comfortable with.
However, the timely demise of my old HP happened just as W7 was coming out, so I have kept 7 as my OS.
So far I am pleased with most of the changes but I am having a couple of small but important problems.
Everything I do is in PhotoShop.
I design and print Custom Decals for Custom DieCast Cars,i.e., HotWheels, MatchBox, etc..
Here's my situation,
When I open up a folder from Documents, mostly of which all are image files, there is no Thumbnail option in the Windows 7 View drop down menu.
Available options include Extra Large, Large, Medium, and Small Icons, Details, and List, but no Thumbnail option.
Any image that is a jpeg displays as a Thumbnail but psd files just show up as the Icon.
If I want to "see" all the different files in a folder I can't.
Setting the View menu to Large Icons did allow the jpegs to display as thumbnails.
I have to open up the folder in PhotoShop to get the Icons to display as Thumbnails.
If I right click onto a file that is opened up in Documents, and go to "Open With" there is no option to open it with PS.
Could Windows 7 not be allowing the usual interfacing of files I am used to.
To actually view all my image files of all types, psd and jpeg, I had to put everything into Picasa 3 which readily displays everything as thumbnails.
However, right clicking onto anything in Picasa also gives no option of opening it with PhotoShop.
Is this ancient program PhotoShop 6 just too old to be completely compatible with Windows 7.
Might I have the very same inability I describe even if I purchased the latests versions of PhotoShop.
I understand Windows 7 has only been out 3 days all problems with it are just beginning to surface,
but,
This looks like a pretty active Forum and perhaps someone can give me some insight or tell me ther is simply no way to fix this.
Thanks for aking the time to read my problem,
Sincerely,
Pat Parker