UPDATE: How to View Adobe Illustrator AI Thumbnails in Windows XP Explorer

June 29, 2009 by Lee Jones
Filed under: FIX-IT, HOW TO 

A short while ago, I spoke about two methods of displaying a small image of the file as a thumbnail, when viewing Adobe Photoshop PSD and adobe Illustrator AI files in Windows Explorer.

Each post can be seen here:
Adobe Photoshop PSD as Thumbnails
Adobe Illustrator AI as Thumbnails

UPDATE:

Both those methods in

volved downloading files, pasting them in a newly created folder, and changing the registry.

Now you can update both PSD and AI files quickly with one click.
All that is required is to download this software and click on the program to run it . . . . . Only takes a second and is as simple as that.

Download – Click Here

As before, as long as you have Thumbnails selected for that folder, Adobe Photoshop PSD and Adobe Illustrator AI icon, will now be displayed as a small Thumbnail instaed of the standard Icon.

thumb1 UPDATE: How to View Adobe Illustrator AI Thumbnails in Windows XP Explorer

Unfortunately, I still havent worked out a way to automatically prevent Illustrator removing the thumbnails the next time it loads, but the tried and tested manual fix is here if you are OK with editing the registry, and you only need to do this once.

Get the Fix Here

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I have other Fixes for common windows XP problems – click here

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4 Comments on UPDATE: How to View Adobe Illustrator AI Thumbnails in Windows XP Explorer

  1. K Brookes on Sun, 26th Jul 2009 5:52 PM


    2. RE: http://lee-jones.com/blog/update-view-psd-ai-thumbnails-windows-explorer/

    I have run the routine described on this website on my PC running XP Pro SP3. I was hoping it would allow me to view thumbnails of AI files located on a CD in Widows Explorer before opening them in Corel Draw X4. Unfortunately I am still not able to view them as thumbnails. I do not have any Adobe products installed other than Acrobat Viewer and Dreamweaver. Please let me know if you know of another method to view AI Thumbnails.

  2. Lee Jones on Sun, 26th Jul 2009 6:09 PM


    3. Should work regardless of what software you have installed

    Things to check

    Make sure that you have Thumbnails selected for that folder
    Make sure they do have a windows .ai extension, (if saved from a MAC they won’t)
    Try dragging a file into a folder on your PC and recheck the above.
    If it is a very old AI file, the thumbnail will not be displayed

    They are the only reasons it cannot work !

  3. How to View Adobe Illustrator AI Thumbnails in Windows XP Explorer | LEE JONES on Fri, 31st Jul 2009 10:26 AM


    4. [...] CLICK HERE FOR UPDATE TO THIS POST [...]

  4. Dmytro on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 7:24 PM


    5. You can change security settings for any registry keys, so you can set the mentioned key read-only, and there is no need to manually add it each time Illustrator was run.

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