Thumbnails for anme files?

[Víctor Paredes]

Looking for a way to view thumbnails of mov files in windows XP I found a solution here
http://ddhr.org/2008/03/13/display-mov- ... indows-xp/
Now, I was thinking that if there's a way to create thumbnails for mov movies, must be a way to create thumbnails for every files which contains some type of image. Thinking that, I found this page
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/thumbextract.aspx

I didn't understand too much of what is written there, but seems to be you could make that windows create a thumbnail of anme or another files, based on that text.
We know the V_Aviles' scene selector, it creates thumbnails of any anme file you want. Could this two ideas -V_Aviles and windows thumbnails- used to create a dll which make thumbnails for AS?

[synthsin75]

Found out how to create flv, mov, mp4, and just about any other video extension thumbnails in XP. If you're brave enough to mess with your registry, you can copy this into a text editor and save it with the .reg extension.

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mov\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

Open up your registry editor (Start>Run>regedit) and import this .reg file. Done. All you need to do to add more extensions is to copy one of these lines and paste it below the others with the new extension in the place of the one that's there. (Do all this before importing it to the registry.)

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Don't know how to do this for non-video files like .anme though. From what I can tell, it'd be a multi-step process for each anme file, unless someone can automate it with like AutoHotkey or something.

With an icon maker software, you could use Scene Selector thumbs to create icons...and then apply these to shortcuts to the actual AS files. Not real useful like this.

[dueyftw]

In xp each folder has 'Thumbs.db'. A hidden app that I suspect crates the thumb nails. Windows generates it as it needs. So to get thumbs nails for As you would have to modify that app or make a sister app loaded by windows.

I wouldn't want to try. My Windows is flaky enough, I don't want to encourage it to give me the blue screen of death.

Dale