broken explorer preview Office 2010

Hopalong X said:

I don't know if a reformat if your refering to reinstall Windows will do anything.

I'm not getting the previews either. Not the ones you are looking for.

Mike

Oh really? So maybe its an Office 2010 thing then? But don't you get previews with mp3s or txt files?

Hopalong X said:

MP3's do show preview. So do txt.

doc and pdf no preview. I'm using Foxit Reader so that may be the reason on pdf's.

Your not getting any of those?

So now I understand your thinking on a reformat/ reinstall.

There is also a repair install option if you have a Windows disk- not the recovery like HP and Dell uses.
Repair Install

This repairs registry etc. but retains files and documents etc.

Worth a read before re installing from scratch.

Mike

Thanks for that, I will check out the repair. I don't have preview for mp3, PDF, txt etc...I also use Foxit, but even if I switch to Adobe Acrobat as the default, I don't get PDF previews back.

Hopalong X said:

I just really get annoyed when we/I can't find the answer. LOL

See you tomorrow about time for bed here.

We will see what the morning brings.

Mike

Reformat fixed things. I now have proper previews for PDF, Office 2010 files, txt, videos, mp3's etc.

Thanks Irene - that had frustrated me for a few days until I read your post. Even though I have used so many PCs where it was working, I had lost the plot on this one on a PC I recently set up. I was also chasing down a blind alley by looking at the status line icon as that changes on preview too --- well for .pdf it does but not for MSOffice items (how hard would that be ?) apparently.

What is the point of the "show preview" option under Tools which seems just designed to frustrate the explorer hide/show preview button ?

Here it is the "REAL" solution (worked for me)

Add this to your registry: (select text, copy to notepad, save as file.txt, rename file.txt to file.reg)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{6d2b5079-2f0b-48dd-ab7f-97cec514d30b}]
@="Preview Handler Surrogate Host"
"DllSurrogate"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\
00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\
70,00,72,00,65,00,76,00,68,00,6f,00,73,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00,\
00