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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      • Right-click your desktop
      • New->Shortcut
      • Enter C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe /separate as the program path

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • J Offline
        j40
        last edited by

        A shortcut would be great 😄 . Can you please explain how can i make one specifically for this command ?

        Top3D Studio

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        • J Offline
          j40
          last edited by

          Thanks Thom Works great!

          Top3D Studio

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          • B Offline
            BorgMan
            last edited by

            I have tried the Seperate command with Windows 7, but alas, it doesn't work. Has anyone come up with a solution for this rather annoying problem already?

            More varied than the Borg, more powerful than the living dead, and better shots than Imperial Stormtroopers.

            You've gotta love Slivers.

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              @borgman said:

              I have tried the Seperate command with Windows 7, but alas, it doesn't work. Has anyone come up with a solution for this rather annoying problem already?

              Nope. They changed something between the Beta and the RC so explorer.exe always spawn the 64bit version.

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              • EarthMoverE Offline
                EarthMover
                last edited by

                Great trick Thomas! Thanks!! I'll just use the shortcut to search through components. At least I'll have a back button that way.

                3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                Content Creator at Skapeup

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                • brodieB Offline
                  brodie
                  last edited by

                  Great find! Thom's shortcut method is working great for me on Vista 64.

                  -Brodie

                  steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                    BorgMan
                    last edited by

                    I'm going to bump this topic because I'm really curious as to whether this problem has been solved in the released versions of Windows 7. Hey Google, are you watching this? We want our preview back 😡

                    More varied than the Borg, more powerful than the living dead, and better shots than Imperial Stormtroopers.

                    You've gotta love Slivers.

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                      Ecuadorian
                      last edited by

                      Another bump from me. I'm in Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

                      I know the GSU team is working hard in V8, so I hope they add the much needed 64-bit shell extension for Windows Explorer.

                      -Miguel Lescano
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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        No - You can't run the 32bit explorer.exe in the final W7 either.

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • EddyNLE Offline
                          EddyNL
                          last edited by

                          Hi guys,

                          I'm using Win 7 64 bit and my previews are also lost.
                          Is there a workaround / solution?

                          Kind regards,
                          Ward

                          viewtopic.php?f=271&t=11903 Modelling my city for Google Earth!

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                            ye136577267
                            last edited by

                            I'm going to bump this topic because I'm really curious as to whether this problem has been solved in the released versions of Windows 7. Hey Google, are you watching this? We want our preview back

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                            • K Offline
                              Khai
                              last edited by

                              I have a work around..just noticed it.

                              I have Skp previews in FreeCommander....running on Win7 64...

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                              • K Offline
                                kevsterman
                                last edited by

                                Thanks for bumping this guys. I saw Thom's suggestion of creating a shortcut to explorer on the desktop and it works a treat. Finally I have preview thumbnails of all my SU models and components. Hurrah!

                                "Avoid keeping more than 3 items on your desk that you can't fit into your mouth."

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                                  kevsterman
                                  last edited by

                                  Hmm.. I shouldn't have got so happy so soon. Whilst using Thom's desktop shortcut does enable me to view SU thumbnails, I'm finding Explorer constantly crashes. I was trying to sort out all my components into new folders but had to give up because it would crash every time I tried to do anything. Is there a fix for this?

                                  "Avoid keeping more than 3 items on your desk that you can't fit into your mouth."

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                                    bing
                                    last edited by

                                    what i'm doing is that when i want to view some of the su file i open a new sketchup window and i click open, when the whindow pop up i click the view menu to a large icon that's it you will see your su file with preview ...
                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    very handy thanx, my pc at work just started doing that the other day

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      FYO, I came across an app that does .skp thumbnails and .skm thumbnails on both 32 and 64bit systems.
                                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=27784&p=241632
                                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=27753&p=243280

                                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        j40
                                        last edited by

                                        Finally! and it works!
                                        Thank you Thom so much for pushing it.

                                        Top3D Studio

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                                        • olisheaO Offline
                                          olishea
                                          last edited by

                                          is this possible with mac? dont get previews 😞

                                          oli

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                                            setesur1
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello to all

                                            Do you have this triedly?

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                                            MysticThumbs - Image thumbnails for Windows Explorer.

                                            MysticThumbs 32 and 64 bit Windows Explorer thumbnail generator for PSD, TGA, DDS, RAW camera and other images, color management, XMP extraction, Fully configurable options via control panel, Unicode support, multicore optimized, x86 and x64 support.

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                                            A greeting. 😉

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