P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

Thank you, Rob. It is a "real problem" to the clients, and dismissing it lightly doesn't really make it better. Which third party package would you suggest for us, Chris? I'd be happy to get it!

You see, Chris, you have only strengthened my appraisal of the situation. Your clients think it is a problem, sadly you don't. Your clients were happy with the previous version which was fully functional. I know of no other company that has dropped previews for the reason you outline. You and Adobe just wish the issue would die but we have to live and grit our teeth with your decision every day.I don't see the flaw in the argument if you consider the request to put it back in because it still would work. Since you are always sending us updates you can update the previews out again if there ever becomes a time when they conflict with a new OS. Where are we all wrong on this? Rob

Concise maybe, but not even remotely true.

This isn't a real problem - just something that would be nice to have. It is forced on us by OS requirements/limitations. And there are existing third party packages that can provide similar functionality.

I think Rob wrote a pretty concise rundown on the whole situation going on here for the past few years.
For evidence on whether Adobe wants to bother tackling the problem you only have to look at how this whole thread is marked "Not a problem".
Yet I find this a far bigger problem then anything- but that's just me! (And the 78 people participating in this thread).

I'm sorry that you perceive the situation in such a skewed way - but application developers have to work with the limitations of the OS vendors, even if those limitations are not always immediately obvious to the end user.

Rochelle, many months ago Adobe tried to justify its decision to cut the image preview function based on a perceived best-practices action siting that Microsoft was thinking of eliminating support for it in some future OS upgrades. That was a long, long, time ago and it hasn't happened and Adobe has had years of opportunity to make an update fix but despite myriad pleas from its customer base, refuses to this day to do so. Its excuses are rather self-righteous and Adobe seems exasperated that the issue won't go away. Those who are really keen to have previews back again have had to turn to third party software to fill that gap. Other software providers have no problem continuing on with previews, Adobe flatly refuses to consider it any more. Good luck....Rob

in the past versions of photoshop CS 4 I am able to view the file from the open menu-just a small thumbnail, but its super helpful. All Photoshop files
all look the same blue Ps logo

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Regardless of OS security issues, clearly third parties have been able to make this work in the Open dialog, albeit in a clumsy way. Bridge is a memory hog, and routinely crashes my system. It's slow and cumbersome.

I have found Lightroom to be a bit helpful, but again, clumsy in that running two applications when one would otherwise suffice is frustrating.

It's inexcusable that Adobe doesn't provide the necessary DLL so that Windows Explorer in Win7 x64 can display thumbnail images of PSD files. Much smaller companies do so for their proprietary image formats, and some of those programs are free. Shame on you, Adobe!