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by nbell

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I cannot view thumbnail of pictures downloaded as jpg files - tried folder options and changed file associations to match jpeg and gif files and enabled the active desktop figuring if it runs like a web page, the graphics will be displayed the same but no. There are over 1000 of these so editing them individually is a little too much. OS is Windows 98 SE with all updates loaded as of 3/17/02. Okay whatcha got?

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by timwalsh

In win 98, you don't have the option of viewing a file as a thumbnail (within Windows Explorer) as you do with Win2K and Win XP. If you need to see the thumbnails of a number of images at once, you will have to resort to 3rd-party software such as that suggested in Answer 1.

by thechas

I found that I needed to have jpegs associated with IE in order to have thumbnail views work in W98SE.

It turned out that another program had hijacked the file association in the registry, and was not showing up in the file associations in explorer.

I manually edited it out, and corrected the key for jpegs in the registry.

Perhaps the link in answer 1 does that for you automatically.

Chas

by nbell

The preview fix program from #1 fixed it. Thanks for the thought about IE.

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