Viewing All Files, Folders, Docs, Images, Etc Etc As Thumbnails

[joko]

is there a piece of software that can do this for them all?

i have adjusted the setting in the organise window, i have adjusted the folder options in control panel, i have tried a few other things and still i can just see the adobe pdf reader logo, the word doc logo, amongst others.

many do show up, pictures and videos etc, but not these.

the PDFs did show thumbnails for a while but stopped for some reason - no idea why.

i know with some programs you have to set them the save a thumbnail, but office 2010 apparenty doesnt allow that anymore and i dont want to wade through 1000s of docs opening them and resaving them, also some of these docs were not created by me.

is there some software that will batch convert them to a thumbnail view?

im on win 7

thanks

[Buenchico]

My first thought was to try using Classic Shell as an alternative to Windows Explorer:
http://www.classicshell.net/

However this page suggests that Explorer++ might also be worth considering:
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57351048-285/how-to-see-the-same-view-in-all-windows-7-folders/

http://explorerplusplus.com/

(Classic Shell is very popular. Explorer++ is new to me)

[joko]

cheers chris, ive downloaded both of those - but they still just show the icons not a thumbnail of the documents contents.

is there some way to make it show a thumbnail do you know ? i cant see one

[Buenchico]

Any use?
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/toggle-thumbnail-previews-right-click-menu-windows-vista-windows-7/

I'm fumbling in the dark here because I seem to spend a lot of my time disabling thumbnails (which I hate!).

[joko]

Thanks chris, tried that link, it doesnt work - but i found this - http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/814728-pdf-thumbnails-not-working-in-windows-7-64bit/

seems it a problem with win 7 64 bit and cant be fixed just yet, i will have to wait for them to fix it.

thanks for trying though