(TRICK) To re-enable skp file preview

j40

As I thought, the shell extension only works within 32bit applications that uses the 32-bit shell.
Mind you, you might find other issue with that.

Other issues? Can you specify?
I prefer to know before i do it.

thomthom

If you have 64bit extensions for other apps - you might not see them in the 32bit version unless that was also installed.

j40

Thanks Thom,
I entered this command and it poped up a explorer window in which wherever i browsed i could see the thumbnails previews (SU and PDF, yes the the pdfs are also unseen in the thumbnail view).
But if i brows from different/any explorer window the problem remains the same...

thomthom

yes, you have to launch explorer.exe with that command. Make a shortcut on your desktop to it for easy access.

thomthom

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

j40

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

j40

Thanks Thom Works great!

BorgMan

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?

thomthom

@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.

EarthMover

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

brodie

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

-Brodie

BorgMan

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

Ecuadorian

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.

thomthom

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

EddyNL

Hi guys,

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

Kind regards,
Ward

ye136577267

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

Khai

I have a work around..just noticed it.

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

kevsterman

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!

kevsterman

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?

bing

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