Over the years, much discussion has been generated regarding PSP files in Win Explorer and that they often don't natively display.
This has been a particular pain in the rear end since Corel dumped the excellent Jasc In App file browser... A brain fart of the nth order.
Various thing have been used to get the PSP files displayed in Win Explorer, BOT Production being one among them, unfortunately the BOT one I'd been using previously, failed to do the business after Win 10 and PSP update to 2018.
ATM. I'm using the paid for thing, Mystic Thumbs, and today being forced to spend more lolly for another years subscription set me thinking...
Do we have a list anywhere of utilities that work and are still available to get the PSP thumbnails displayed?
Re MysticThumbs, you never need to pay for a new yearly subscription unless you need support or want to get the latest updates. If you are happy with the app at the stage it is, and it is working on your Win 10, then you can just stay on that version and get no updates. I normally renew my subscription every year on my PC but on my Laptop I may run a version for a few years before purchasing another yearly subscription.
I usually wait until there is a sale when I do renew e.g. Black Friday etc..
I presume the license rules haven't changed recently.
It has apparently not worked for everyone, meaning the problem is not always the same, but, for me, all I've ever had to to do was run a single command in my commandline to re-register the decoder that comes with PSP. I already own the software, no point in getting something from someone else.
If I ever get the time I really want to write a simple utility that will attempt this fix for people using this option.
LeviFiction wrote:It has apparently not worked for everyone, meaning the problem is not always the same, but, for me, all I've ever had to to do was run a single command in my commandline to re-register the decoder that comes with PSP. I already own the software, no point in getting something from someone else.
If I ever get the time I really want to write a simple utility that will attempt this fix for people using this option.
Could you reproduce that commandline for us?
Had PS3, PSP3; Installed: PSP-4.12, 5.03, 6.02, 7.04 (liked it a lot & used it for years), 8.00, XI, x4.3.0.3, x6.2.0.20, x7.4.0.11, x8.3.0.13, x9.2.0.7; now using PSPx10 (PSP 2018; version 20.2.0.1 x64) on Win 10-64 b2004.
LeviFiction wrote:It has apparently not worked for everyone, meaning the problem is not always the same, but, for me, all I've ever had to to do was run a single command in my commandline to re-register the decoder that comes with PSP. I already own the software, no point in getting something from someone else.
All fine and dandy if you know how.
I don't know how to register a dll and after looking at the link suppied by hartpaul, sorry I'm non the wiser.
Long time since I fiddled with Windows CMD but I did eventually remember...
So on my Laptop PSP 2018 which wouldn't show PSPImage file thumbs I discovered two things.
1) The 32bit install of 2018 didn't contain "PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" it only existed in the 64 bit version which I haven't installed on the laptop.
2) Transferred a copy in, but even after doing the cmd regsvr32 "path to PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" and yes thereafter it was registered (As shown by ShellxView) the PSP thumbs still did not show. (Yes I had rebooted the computer).
However I did discover, if I open PSP files then Ctrl-S (Save) them the PSPfile thumbnails display.
This is why I want to make a utility for users, so they won't have to know those details. Or better yet have Corel make one. It was a long video and demo and required extra software. No one wants to deal with that.
The problem I have (Win10-64) is that if I run Command, then
C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" I get (can't copy that text):
Had PS3, PSP3; Installed: PSP-4.12, 5.03, 6.02, 7.04 (liked it a lot & used it for years), 8.00, XI, x4.3.0.3, x6.2.0.20, x7.4.0.11, x8.3.0.13, x9.2.0.7; now using PSPx10 (PSP 2018; version 20.2.0.1 x64) on Win 10-64 b2004.
ehume wrote:The problem I have (Win10-64) is that if I run Command, then
C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" I get (can't copy that text):
Take it as a 'given', as noted yesterday, I'm exceedingly rusty where CLI is concerned, but...
When I registered the "PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" yesterday, I did it from CMD. selected "Run as Administrator"
Put in the following...
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll"
Obviously mine was a slightly different path to the .dll as PSP is installed on drive D:\ and I'm using the 32bit PSP, but the important bit is at the start...
regsvr32 "Path to... PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll"
Ax
Out of interest... In what respect... (can't copy that text)?
ehume wrote:The problem I have (Win10-64) is that if I run Command, then
C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" I get (can't copy that text):
Take it as a 'given', as noted yesterday, I'm exceedingly rusty where CLI is concerned, but...
When I registered the "PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll" yesterday, I did it from CMD. selected "Run as Administrator"
Put in the following...
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll"
Obviously mine was a slightly different path to the .dll as PSP is installed on drive D:\ and I'm using the 32bit PSP, but the important bit is at the start...
regsvr32 "Path to... PSPPThumbShellExt64.dll"
Ax
Out of interest... In what respect... (can't copy that text)?
Ax
That worked. I got a message that the registration had succeeded, and when I went to a folder where some of the .pspiage files were represented by an icon, all were now represented by thumbnails. So thank you.
Windows information windows for years have contained text that cannot be copied directly. What I posted is part of a screenshot that showed what Windows displayed. You cannot go inside an image to copy the text directly. Oh, with the right software I guess you could select just the text part, copy it and paste it to a new image, then do character recognition... But that would be so much work; easier to cut down a screenshot.
The only fillip to add: the last time I used Command, I had done "CD \", "CD\Windows", then "CD\System32", so the command prompt was still C:\Windows\System32 >. But your code worked. Thanks again.
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Had PS3, PSP3; Installed: PSP-4.12, 5.03, 6.02, 7.04 (liked it a lot & used it for years), 8.00, XI, x4.3.0.3, x6.2.0.20, x7.4.0.11, x8.3.0.13, x9.2.0.7; now using PSPx10 (PSP 2018; version 20.2.0.1 x64) on Win 10-64 b2004.
It may also be that running Command as Administrator was the key.
Had PS3, PSP3; Installed: PSP-4.12, 5.03, 6.02, 7.04 (liked it a lot & used it for years), 8.00, XI, x4.3.0.3, x6.2.0.20, x7.4.0.11, x8.3.0.13, x9.2.0.7; now using PSPx10 (PSP 2018; version 20.2.0.1 x64) on Win 10-64 b2004.
Trying out new thumbnails with NirSoft's PSP Thumbnail Handler, even running as Administrator, I recurrently get this:
Had PS3, PSP3; Installed: PSP-4.12, 5.03, 6.02, 7.04 (liked it a lot & used it for years), 8.00, XI, x4.3.0.3, x6.2.0.20, x7.4.0.11, x8.3.0.13, x9.2.0.7; now using PSPx10 (PSP 2018; version 20.2.0.1 x64) on Win 10-64 b2004.
I figured out what was going wrong with the PSP Thumbnail Handler -- it turns out, if you add a single extension type, it will complete successfully.
Had PS3, PSP3; Installed: PSP-4.12, 5.03, 6.02, 7.04 (liked it a lot & used it for years), 8.00, XI, x4.3.0.3, x6.2.0.20, x7.4.0.11, x8.3.0.13, x9.2.0.7; now using PSPx10 (PSP 2018; version 20.2.0.1 x64) on Win 10-64 b2004.
