{"id":159,"date":"2010-01-02T20:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-01-02T20:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:10:34","slug":"extending-windows-explorer-preview-pane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/extending-windows-explorer-preview-pane\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending Windows Explorer Preview Pane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preview pane in explorer doesn&#8217;t work for many files, and I&#8217;ve gotten used to seeing a preview of pdf and text files in the file manager in Linux. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docu-track.com\/home\/prod_user\/PDF-XChange_Tools\/pdfx_viewer\">PDF-XChange Viewer<\/a> <\/span>has an explorer plugin and comes with some PDF editing tools. To make preview work with other text files like those with a php extension, there is a tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/previewconfig-tool-registers-file-types-for-the-preview-pane-in-windows-vista\/\"><strong>PreviewConfig<\/strong><\/a>. Here&#8217;s what the previews look like:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"attachment_160\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160\" title=\"screenshot.1\" src=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.1-300x210.png\" alt=\"Preview Pane in Windows 7\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.1-300x210.png 300w, http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preview Pane in Windows 7. Click on the area highlighted to activate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_161\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-161\" title=\"screenshot.2\" src=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.2-300x210.png\" alt=\"PDF Preview\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.2-300x210.png 300w, http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/screenshot.2.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PDF Preview<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preview pane in explorer doesn&#8217;t work for many files, and I&#8217;ve gotten used to seeing a preview of pdf and text files in the file manager in Linux. PDF-XChange Viewer has an explorer plugin and comes with some PDF editing tools. To make preview work with other text files like those with a php [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}