Enable or Disable Thumbnail Preview in Windows Explorer for PDF files

By default if you activate thumbnails view in windows explorer, thumbnail view for PDF files is not active. The PDF files only shown PDF icon. But with add a registry entry we can make thumbnail in PDF files such as thumbnail in images files. As comparison, you can see the picture below.

How to activate thumbnail preview for PDF files. Its simple you can follow these steps:

Methode 1

• Open registry editor and navigate to this regestry key: “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | AcroExch.Document.7 | Shellex”
• Create new regestry key named “{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}”
• Double click default string in right pane, modifi the regestry value and replace the value with “ {F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}”.

Methode 2

• Open notepad
• Write this entry in the notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\Shellex\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@=”{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}”

• Click file save as, in the save as type set to all files.
• In the file names type, write the file name with reg extention (e.g “pdfpreview.reg”, “pdfthumnaild.reg or etc) then save the file.
• Double click the file to activate pdf thumnails.

Note:

• You may need restart to take effect this regestry key.
• To disable this feature delete the key named “{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}”
• I tested this tricks in windows XP