Windows 7 thumbnail viewers?

[Kat]

Setting up a new PC and completely forgot that Windows Explorer only has thumbnail view support for a limited number of image formats... What are people using to view TGA, DDS, etc. images? The old 'thumbview' plug-ins ("thumbplug" in particular) don't work for W7. Ideas & suggestions?

MediaFile Assistant (mfa101.exe) seems to work as a separate app to using Windows Explorer.

[obsidian]

I'm using MysticThumbs, works well with .tga and a bunch of other formats in Windows 7. However, does not work with .dds. It used to be freeware, but now it's $25. You can still pick up the free version here.

If you need .dds, you can use nVidia's DDS Thumbnail Viewer.

[Kat]

The nVidia DDS plug-in doesn't work for me. If third parties can write apps and plug-ins that do this it makes you wonder what MS are playing at.

[seremtan]

on a related note, why oh why did micro$oft decide to omit 'refresh thumbnails' from the context menu? (deleting the contents of the thumbnail cache doesn't refresh)

[Hipshot]

Using this:
http://code.google.com/p/sagethumbs/

[Theftbot]

http://games.greggman.com/game/tga_thum ... r_windows/

[Kat]

Doesn't work with Windows 7

[obsidian]

nVidia plugin works fine for me on Windows 7. Did you hit F5 or do a restart?

[Kat]

Yes, from what I've been reading there seems to be an odd issue with some things on the 64bit version of the OS. I managed to 'fix' the issue in a round-about way by installing a demo version of CorelDraw X5 and associating the images to that app, can see everything now (still needed the DDS plug-in though).

[cityy]

Hipshot's link works for me on win7 64 bit.

[Kat]

Yup, finally managed to get a few minutes to sort this out. Once SageThumbs was installed I had to 'reset' the default app to QuickTime (disassociate it from Corel PhotoPaint) and that worked fine. Can now see actual thumbnails for TGA (not check DDS as of writing).

[Hipshot]

DDS should work (unless I misunderstood that), at least they are for me. But I only have ACDSee installed from before (and photoshop then ofc).

[Kat]

Just had a look and yes DDS work (except for idtech normal maps).