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Hello everyone. I'm so glad to have found Paint.net as I recently switched to Vista & my Adobe Photodeluxe won't work right with it. This does everything I need to do. 

 

The problem is that when I open a file, it just shows little generic thumbnails instead of the actual image. Anybody have an idea what that's about? I'd like to be able to see the images as thumbnails.

 

Thanks!

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Hi and welcome to the forum hope7 :)

Let's see if I have this straight; you're opening an image file with Paint.NET and only a small placeholder image is showing up? That does seem odd. To be clear, this is not a problem you're seeing in your file explorer, but actually in the Paint.NET application?

Can you please post a screenshot of the open paint.net editing window showing this?

I would also like to see one of the problem images if you can upload one.

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Thanks. Now I can't figure out how to show the screen shot on here.  Yes, it is all images, not just on paint. I just got this computer & not used to it & hadn't noticed that all of my images are those generic thumbnails.

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Hello! :)

 

If you need help on how to upload or post images, please try this tutorial. http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/12193-how-to-use-images-in-your-posts-signatures-and-avatars/

 

Also, before you post images, please read though the forum rules. That way you can stick to the image size guidelines, or use thumbnails.

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Yes, it is all images, not just on paint. I just got this computer & not used to it & hadn't noticed that all of my images are those generic thumbnails.

This sounds like a file association issue. Try reading this: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-do-i-change-file-extension-associations-in-windows-vista/

Try reassigning one type of image file (say *.JPG) to the Paint.NET application and see if this changes the icon. If it does, double clicking the file should open it with Paint.NET

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I'm not sure I fully understand, but maybe you just need to change the view of you're images?  If so, I found this explanation which might help you :

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-music-pictures-video/13270-picture-icons-dont-show-preview-picture.html

 

Or anytime you are in a folder with images just right click > view > large icons.

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