How to Enable Thumbnail View for Folders in Windows Explorer

Last reviewed: November 26, 1997
Article ID: Q176882

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows NT 4.0

SUMMARY

This article describes how to enable Thumbnail view for folders in Windows Explorer.

MORE INFORMATION

To enable Thumbnail view for a folder in Windows Explorer, follow these steps:

If you have not already done so, install the Windows Desktop Update component. For information about how to do so, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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Right-click the folder for which you want to enable Thumbnail view, and then click Properties.
Click the Enable Thumbnail View check box to select it, and then click OK.

To view the contents of a folder using Thumbnail view, click Thumbnails on the View menu in Windows Explorer, and then click the folder for which Thumbnail view is enabled. The image files in the folder are displayed as miniature versions of the actual images in the right pane. The following are some of the file types that can be displayed using Thumbnail view:

   BMP (Windows Bitmap files)
   GIF (Graphics Interchange Format files)
   JPG, JPEG (Joint Photographics Export Group files))
   HTM, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language files)

Other file types may be displayed using Thumbnail view. Files that cannot be displayed using Thumbnail view are displayed using their default icons.

Additional query words: 4.00 thumb nail mini small
Keywords : kbdisplay msient msiew95
Version : WINDOWS:4.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: November 26, 1997
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