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.ai and .psd preview on Windows 10

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December 6, 2016
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Hello,

I'm currently using a Mac but i will soon be working on PC: I was wondering if it was possible to previex the .psd and .ai files directly in the file explorer of Windows 10, without having to open them in Photoshop or Illustrator (as we can be done on OSX thanks to the spacebar)? It would be a great time saver!

Thank you,

Clara

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

You can always use Adobe Bridge to accurately preview these files.

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Jonathan26426216pht2

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I found FastPictureViewer Codec Pack and haven't looked back since.

http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

Jonas DK

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I garantee you - they are not answering the initial question AND the are all inferior sulotion that does not solve the problem.

By @Jonas DK

I'm not referring to the answers marked as correct. Did you read the complete thread?

I have read the thread. And many other threads like it. Why do you ask? This is a big issue to many people. I am trying to let people know the one simple simple answer to the thread - which is wrongly marked "correct" twice.

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Monika Gause

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I garantee you - they are not answering the initial question AND the are all inferior sulotion that does not solve the problem. The is one answer - I have been persuing this for years. This is the simple and 100% good answer. The fact that 2 "correct answers" are given to solutiones that certainly not are the correct answer - is just...

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I garantee you - they are not answering the initial question AND the are all inferior sulotion that does not solve the problem.

By @Jonas DK

I'm not referring to the answers marked as correct. Did you read the complete thread?

Jonas DK

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The ONLY things that will do this 100% is

By @Jonas DK

According to other participants in this thread there are other tools that do it as well.

I garantee you - they are not answering the initial question AND the are all inferior sulotion that does not solve the problem. The is one answer - I have been persuing this for years. This is the simple and 100% good answer. The fact that 2 "correct answers" are given to solutiones that certainly not are the correct answer - is just...

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Monika Gause

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The ONLY things that will do this 100% is

By @Jonas DK

You have posted that link 4 times in this thread alone.

Monika Gause

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The ONLY things that will do this 100% is

By @Jonas DK

According to other participants in this thread there are other tools that do it as well.

Jonas DK

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All other amswers in this thread in INCORRECT.
1. Bridge is a wrong answer as it does NOT open from within Windows 10
2. Sage thumbs is not the right option and and many limitations

The ONLY solution (and I have tried them all) is PSD CODEC (http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/)

That will preview AI and PSD and everything else from with Windows 10 explorer.

THIS is the ONLY correct answer. Cheers 🙂

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NathanOdellin

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Yes that will probably work, but why on earth should we have to spend money on a third party codec just to preview Adobe files. It is absolutely ridiculous!

Clearly there IS a solution - a codec exists, and yet - despite YEARS of customers complaining about this ludicrous issue, Windows/Adobe do absolutely nothing to fix it.

It's so aggregiously annoying that it might actually determine my decision to move back to Mac. I find Windows fine when using applications, but as an operating system it is so teeth grindingly god awful at times.

Jonas DK

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I completely agree! 🙂 But this is the only 100% working solution. It cost a small amout of money - and will make your life a lot easier. But shame on Windows dev team 🙂

Also Windows 10 can good when you have tweaked it. Out of the box Windows 10 is sh#t! But I would take a tweaked Win 10 over Mac OS any day. 🙂 But at the end of the day both Windows and Mac are pretty equal - both have big flaws. However I wish Windows Dev team a just a little bit of passion.

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Jonas DK

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SOLVED!!!!

Use this 3rd party software:

http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/

IT WORKS. Finally fixed ! 😄

<NOTE: this one is free from microsoft - https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/file-viewer-plus-4/9NMSDKXC9R3F?hl=en-us&gl=us added by kglad>

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NathanOdellin

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$19.95 to a 3rd party just to be able to see my files.

Slow hand clap Windows dev team - if one even exists anymore.

Jonas DK

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Ya. Agree. But it is well worth the 20 dollars 🙂 Still very happy i found a solution to this - even at that cost.

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Jonas DK

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This is a plain wrong answer in 2022 - still tops the google search in 2022. Windows can't do this yet - amazing. No 3rd party program can do this either with previewing ai files.

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Kuttyjoe

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At this point, I believe the reason Microsoft doesn't do this is because the OS is not efficient enough to actually handle it. If Windows natively could view various file types, it would choke the OS and people would complain about how slow Windows is. My experience with Windows is that it chokes to death when just viewing complex letter fonts while MacOS has no problem whatsoever viewing the same fonts. It will probably do the same with a large Photoshop or Illustrator file. MacOS is an amazing OS. Windows is stuck in the distant past. Updates to Windows do nothing to change this whatsoever. But, I suppose the benefit of that is that is is much more backwards compatible than MacOS. Apple cares nothing at all about your perfectly working thousands of dollars worth of printers, scanners, etc. If you take the next update, you'll probably say goodbye to some of that equipment.

Jonas DK

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It would NOT choke the OS. Win 10 can easily handle showing thumbnails - easy. There is NO reason why Microsoft doesn't natively show thumbnails for ALL image related files like SVG, AI, PSD and so on. They are imcompetent and lazy. Period. No excues.

However it would be great to know if there was a 3rd party pluin or extension to make viewing AI thumbnails files a reality.

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Spkblue

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Preview in Windows with to spacerbar ---> Quickloop from Microsoft Store.

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