In some systems, the thumbnail previews don’t show up in the OneDrive Documents or Pictures folders, even though the files are available offline. If the thumbnails still don’t show up in File Explorer, see if clearing the thumbnail cache using Disk Cleanup helps. This script works in Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10.Īnd here is a small YouTube video - togglethumbs.avi This adds the Enable/Disable Thumbnails option to the right-click menu. The Enable/Disable Thumbnails option is now added to the context menu, which will be seen when you right-click on the Desktop and when right-clicking on an empty area in a folder. Windows 7 32bit, I see thumbnail previews for pdf.
Move the file togglethumbs.vbs to the C:\Windows directory.Unzip the archive and extract the contents to a folder.
The archive contains a registry file and a VBScript - both are plain-text files. The Codec Pack is compatible with Windows 10 Desktop, Windows 8.x Desktop, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3 and also creates thumbnails for Google SketchUp, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, EPS and Adobe PDF-XMP.
To toggle the display of thumbnail previews without going into Folder Options every time, here is a Windows Script solution for you that adds the Enable/Disable Thumbnails in the right-click menu. Enable or disable thumbnail view via the right-click menu
