Once again, thumbnails do not appear for .pspimage files

[rudnei]

Hi all,
I've just upgraded to PSP 2020 and once again the thumbnails do not appear for .pspimage files.

I do not want to go through uninstall/reinstall the software... any ideas?

FYI, I am running Windows 10 64 bit, release 1903.

Cheers
Rudnei

[ehume]

IIRC the easiest way to address this issue is to right-click on the file, pick Open With from that context menu, and repeat the process (it's a little different between Win7 and Win 10) until you reach a place where you have the option of checking Always Open This With or some such. Check the box, and select PSP. I can't remember if you have to go all the way to "C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)" or not, but it is something you do once.

[rudnei]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, it did not work... I had to uninstall, clean-up and then reinstall. At least it works now...
Cheers
Rudnei

[ADonahoo]

So why doesn't it work on the first installation? I just got done with my customizations and now have to uninstall?

[LeviFiction]

Something to do with registering the DLL that hooks into Explorer to provide the thumbnail. You don't have to uninstall if the DLL exists it can just be registered.

[ADonahoo]

I remember that from before, and I know what happened. I had too many versions of PSP installed and uninstalled PSP X7 and that was the first one I installed when I got this computer. What is the .dll I need to look for?

[LeviFiction]

I don't remember but ShellExViewer tells me it's this one on my system. c:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2020 (64-bit)\PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll

ShellExViewer Download - https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Just need to run regsvr32 in the commandline on that dll

%systemroot%\System32\regsvr32.exe <path to dll>

Wonder if a simple PSPThumbnail utility could be made to help people do this without having to do all of this themselves.

[ADonahoo]

I remember I've been through this before for exactly the same reason.

Thank you

[ehume]

I have a slightly different issue: some of my .pspimage files show up fine as thumbnails, some do not.

I have tried running the regserver noted above, but my system gags on the '-bit' flag. One thing: you must run resvr32.exe with the '.exe' included, or you will not get far enough to gag.

[ehume]

Interesting: the .pspimage files that do show up as thumbnails have the 32-bit logo on the thumbnails.

[Tony Lenton]

Google "PSP Thumbnail Handler". You should find a file like "PSP Thumbnail Display.exe" or something similar. Just download it and run it. Your thumbnails should appear.

[LeviFiction]

PSP Thumbnail handler is fine, it's a third-party alternative to PSP's own DLL. As a result, though unlikely to be important with thumbnails, if Corel adds any functionality to the thumbnail viewer to handle newer formats, PSP Thumb handler will not be aware of it. Again, highly unlikely with thumbnails. I mean, what could they possibly offer for thumbnails that a general viewer couldn't produce? The thumbnail block in the format doesn't ever appear to change. Still, I'm never thrilled with using a third-party to do what the main software can do just fine. Corel just needs to release their own PSP Thumb Viewer installer for a simple replacement if this ever happens. No need to potentially infect your machine if you download the wrong thing.

[ADonahoo]

What would be better would be that later versions of PSP would reregister the thumbnail handler to each new installation. I thought reinstalling 2020 would be easier than the previous instruction, and this time all my customizations remained. That's a first IIRC.

[ehume]

Google "PSP Thumbnail Handler". You should find a file like "PSP Thumbnail Display.exe" or something similar. Just download it and run it. Your thumbnails should appear.

Works great. Now all of my .pspimage files are properly thumbnailed, not just some .pspimage files.

[ADonahoo]

It didn't work for me, so I had to reinstall.