Windows 7

[Bonvoyage4me]

Lizj is trying her hardest to get me to see a preview. I have gotten to everything she has said except the view and thumbnails. Does anyone know where that is on Windows 7?
I have shrunk my main scree and have the folder ready. I go to the the view on the top left of my screen between edit and favorites. When I open view I see nothing that says thumbnails.
She has windows vista and don't know if there is a difference.

[esther_a]

You want "extra large icons"
There's also a pulldown on the top right of the window that includes all of the icon (thumbnail) sizes and a slider to help you choose.

[Bonvoyage4me]

Sorry Esther a Don't know where you are. Is the place on the right in the main bar that has the picture of the house/dropdown arrow/ envelope/printer/page/safety/tools.
Don't see the icons anywhere. They are suppose to be on the left side with File Edit View Favorites Tools and help.
In the properties it says if you change icon you will lose the preview

[esther_a]

You were right to go to the the view on the top left of my screen between edit and favorites.
In the View menu it has "extra large icons".
Please ignore the other suggestion I made about using the pull-down on the right. We must have different toolbars turned on. I don't have a picture of the house/dropdown arrow/ envelope/printer/page/safety/tools. Sorry!

[Bonvoyage4me]

ok now that we are in the right spot, my view says nothing about extra large icons Lizj said to make sure the folder is open. I open the folder and then shrink my page so I can get the bar at the top. My folder is on my desktop, so there is no bar, I have to open something to get the bar. So the folder is on the side of what is open, is that the problem maybe. That the folder is on the desktop?

[lizj]

For clarification, I have XP. I didn't think Windows 7 would be that different. Does anyone know where the thumbnails view is hidden in Windows 7?

[esther_a]

In Windows 7 it is "extra large icons" in the View menu.
Once you open your folder to view the things inside it you should see the View menu at the top of the folder window.
You can also right-click when you are inside your folder and you can choose View -> Extra large icons from the menu that appears.

[Bonvoyage4me]

Yep I have the extra large icons, I tired them all extra large, large, medium no preview. Thanks guys I just put in a Christmas order for ACDsee series 14 and we will see how that works I should of gotten it when I saw it on sale, it was a great price darn the bad luck.

[esther_a]

Make sure you unzipped your kit into an ordinary folder.
It should look like this:

[Bonvoyage4me]

Lizj and Esther_a Fa La La La La Merry Christmas I have Previews! Thanks for not giving up on me. I went to Green Bay today to shop and on the way down I worked on the computer and got it in two seconds. No, I was not driving. Ye ahhh that makes such a difference, you can not imagine how different it is to see the preview. I owe you big time, all the people that help on here THANKS for sharing your expertise with us oh so helpless people.

[esther_a]

I am relieved! I wonder why it wasn't working for you before!

[lizj]

Oh, that's wonderful! I totally understand, it is so much better when you can see the previews on the folder, what a difference that makes. I'm so glad for you that it works now!

You'll probably still want to go ahead with ACDSee, which will give you the ability to tag things that are not in the same folder, but are similar categories. I won't be able to help with that though, as I too am just learning ACDSee.

[blhdvm]

I don't think you could possibly do ANYTHING if you couldn't see the previews!!

[Bonvoyage4me]

blvdhm you are catching on alot faster than me. You are so right I am so glad I have previews. I never knew about that feature and I have been doing digital for over a year, but not elements. Thanks to everyone again