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gonzalu
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October 30, 2017
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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update .PSD Thumbnails Not Showing

  • October 30, 2017
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Hello all,

I have lost the thumbnail icons in Windows. At one point in the past, .PSD file icons displayed as a Thumbnail Preview of the file. This stopped working a long time ago and I have the latest version of Photoshop installed.

Windows is Pro x64 and Photoshop is also the x64 bit version.

Please DO NOT suggest third party plugins, extensions, DLLs, CoDec packs, etc. I am not interested in third party solutions. This should be a function Adobe enables. If it MUST be from Microsoft, I will pursue that option.

Thank you for your help in advance.

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    EashanMisra
    EashanMisra
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    October 30, 2017

    Hi,

    Unfortunately, you can't have thumbnail previews on Windows 10 without installing a third party software.

    This thread might help you;

    Viewing PSD thumbnails...

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    gonzaluAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 30, 2017

    Hi EashanMisra... are you giving the official Adobe or Microsoft response or just your observations? Also I have read every single "alternative" way of doing it which is why I said don't bother posting them... I am ONLY interested in a proper solution to this natively by the OS or by Adobe.

    Thank you. 

      Jeff Arola
      Community Expert
      Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 31, 2017

      Unless you can convince adobe to provide the psd previews, which microsoft told them not to do anymore for windows explorer or you can convince Microsoft to display psd previews, which people have been trying to get them to do for more than twenty years, then EashanMisra's

      solution is the only reasonable course of action, besides using something like adobe bridge to view psd files.

      If your psd thumbnail icons are actually blank and don't show the psd photoshop icon, then that is a problem that hopefully can be solved.

      Do you have photoshop associated with psd files in the windows file associations?

      What version of photoshop and windows are you using?

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