When opening or browsing PDF files on your desktop or through File Explorer, you may suddenly notice that the icons turn into ...

Windows Explorer displayed .pdf files as preview thumbnails on Zill Niazi’s old Windows 7 laptop. But on a new laptop, also running Windows 7, it displays them only as icons. Can this be fixed? I’m ...

There are two reasons to install the latest version of Windows 10's PowerToys. First, and most important, PowerToys will soon start self-updating. You won’t have to visit the GitHub every time a new ...

If your Windows 64-bit installation doesn’t show thumbnail images of PDFs, you can use the free 64-bit Adobe Preview Handler to make it work again. When I upgraded to Windows 8 64-bit a few months ...

The Windows Explorer file management application in Windows 7 includes a preview pane that you can use to view the contents image files and other files on your hard drive. By default, the preview pane ...

The File Explorer program, formerly known as Windows Explorer, has been a core element of the operating system for decades. Like most of the various portions of the OS, they have given it a noticeable ...

Vista had its own version of a preview pane in Windows Explorer, which didn’t work that well and didn’t work for all that many file types, but Windows 7 gets it right. Win 7’s version activates via a ...

The File Explorer details pane is getting a face lift. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 11 ...