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preview bitmaps on win-explorer-doubleclick

Jun 29, 2012 10:16 AM

Hi All,

on Win7 64 I could with CS5 associate all popular bitmap formats with Bridge.

That way when double-clicking an image in windows-explorer I got a preview with Bridge.

If so desired I could then fully open that file from the Bridge-Context Menu (open with...)

 

I would like to have it set up the same way with CS6 but I fail miserably.

 

Bridge indeed shows previews of all supported formats by using "Browse with Bridge" but I can not

get Bridge to gain focus and to let me preview images on Explorer-doubleclick.

 

Inside Bridge I have already reassigned the desired formats to Bridge (from Photoshop) but it has no effect.

Assigning Bridge as a Standard-Program for certain file-types from within Windows

does not work either. Browsing to the installation-folder and pointing to Bridge.exe has no effect.

Bridge does not get accepted and not even offered as one of the options to open a bitmap.

 

Images instead on Explorer-doubleclick either open with MS-Paint

or are even sent to the printer without confirmation which is particularly nasty.

 

Even after a second install and cleaning I do not get this set up.

Did anyone run into the same problem and knows how to fix this?

430 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: polyxo, Jul 2, 2012 11:01 AM
 
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  • Curt Y
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    1. Curt Y,
    Jul 1, 2012 5:44 PM   in reply to polyxo
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    Did you uninstall a previous version after installing CS6?  That may foul up file associations.

     
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    2. polyxo,
    Jul 2, 2012 12:12 AM   in reply to Curt Y
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    Yes and that indeed caused a lot of problems.

    I went the recommended route and used the cleaner-tool but found pretty crazy thatan entirely new install was necessary.

     

    But I am not sure if what I see is related.

    Maybe Adobe simply does not want Bridge CS6  to work the way I want to set it up.

     

    Is there a Windows-User out there who could make Bridge CS6 open jpgs by doubleclick in windows-explorer?

     
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    3. Paul Riggott,
    Jul 2, 2012 1:49 AM   in reply to polyxo
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    This might be of use?

    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=allReviews&loc=e n_us&extid=1046717

     
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  • polyxo
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    4. polyxo,
    Jul 2, 2012 6:56 AM   in reply to Paul Riggott
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    Hi Paul,

    thanks but that script seems to work in previous windows os's only.

    It does not install on win7. According to comments this happened not only to me.

     

    Actually I also don't want a context-menu entry but files to open on doubleclick.

     
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  • Curt Y
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    5. Curt Y,
    Jul 2, 2012 8:28 AM   in reply to polyxo
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    You may also have to set flle associations in the OS.  On the road right now but in Win 7 look in Help for file associatons to see how to get there.

     
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    6. polyxo,
    Jul 2, 2012 11:01 AM   in reply to Curt Y
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    You may also have to set flle associations in the OS.  On the road right now but in Win 7 look in Help for file associatons to see how to get there.

    I've been there before my first post. That does not work.

     

    The good news is that I got a workable solution for Win7 64 and CS6. The .reg-files found here give access to Bridge on File-Level (not as Adobe-Default default per Directory).

    So one can simply rightclick any file and preview it in Bridge.

    I still had some nasty remaining Context-Menu-Entries such as "Preview/Edit" and then the same again in my OS-language which could not easily be deleted from the Registry.

    With this cool tool  I could clean up. Now there's only "open" which uses the assigned Editor and "Preview in Bridge"(through the additional .reg-key).

    Ok, I also renamed the default Windows-Picture-Viewer .dll (there are two - one in 32bit and one in the 64 bit programs-folder) which got rid of additional

    context-menu-entries. Warning: Although pretty easy to handle one should know a bit about what one's doing before running these tools.

    Previous registry-backup doesn't hurt either.

     

    Bridge is very useful, bummer only that some darn obvious stuff to make it interact with windows is not in place.

     
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