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Originally Posted by ifergus
Hi can't get this reg hack to work, I have Windows 8 64-bit
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I have Windows 8.1 64-bit and, while trying to display thumbnails for ePubs, I realized that my thumbnails for PDF weren't showing up either (in Directory Opus, or, for that matter, Windows Explorer).
1) Fix Acrobat thumbnails
There seems to be a screw up by Adobe which prevent 64-bit thumbnail view. Leo Davidson has kindly made
a fix for this issue.
2) Get ePub thumbnails
I followed this
procedure. It's based on what Scruffy says but for Windows 7 (and in my case Windows 8.1 64-bit) it is suggested to use
CBX Shell. That is, (1) install CBX Shell, and (2) add the shell extension (i.e. put the following in a 'thumbs.reg' file and add it to the Registry):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.epub\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{9E6ECB90-5A61-42BD-B851-D3297D9C7F39}"
and now both my thumbnails for pdf's and ePub's show up.
3) Metadata for ePubs
It would seem that Microsoft and, whoever kindly makes replacements for its mediocre file manager, have not realized how many we are using ePubs on a daily basis. So if someone could figure out how we get also metadata for ePubs to show up as an info tip then it would be extremely useful.