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I have Power Toys and all the File Explorer settings are on.
I did a reinstall of Foxit Reader, verified that Shell Extensions is selected.
Another weird development, after the upgrade repair I performed a system restore point, today I restored it and still no previews.
Possibly a hardware issue? My Lenovo laptop is 7 years old.
After the in-place upgrade repair you reported all was ok bar pdfs.
Then you found txt and ini ... had disappeared again.Windows Explorer Preview now works for everything I want it to except pdf files:
This suggests something you have running is making changes here
What security software do you use?
Consider any tweak programs, unusual 3rd party programs...
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As for pdf: what do you see here?
If nothing in the right pane, return to what I said last about how you set a preview handler for a file type- where such a handler is available, of course.
Foxit appears to offer 2 preview handlers, one labelled (XP). (My version is 12.0.0.12394
Here you can see the registered handlers:
(That's this PC with no Foxit reader installed)
Last edited by dalchina; 31 Jan 2023 at 03:36.
Yes, no help.
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See post #38.
I use Windows defender and run the free version of Malwarebytes once a week. I use a program called "Synergy" but turned it off, no improvements and I have "Everything" running, both programs have been with me for a long time - no newly added third party software.
Change your pdf handler to
Microsoft PDF Previewer
and retry.
But as I said, - the in-place upgrade repair fixed about 3 things- and then SOMETHING broke them.
You need to find out what that is.
Try creating a new user for test purposes; log in as that user.
Any change?
As stated, you need to find out what is making a change to your registry- it seems something is.
That's got to be something unusual. I have no more ideas. Thank you for your attention.
As an alternative you could of course consider File Viewer Plus 4..
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/det...hl=en-us&gl=us