Hello Phil1923; AAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh the old shell game, "Now you See It and Now You Don't" ( BEER has got to help!!!)
George
there's no problem under Windows 32 bits. I removed and installed again the Shell Extensions, and CPT thumbnails works fine
The Shell Extension is required for you to view thumbnails for CPT and CDR files.
If you remove it you won't see any previews. The shell extension adds this functionality to windows to View these files.
So... basically you shouldn't panic. Just re-install and your thumbnails will be back.
I had exactly the same problem. I should not have uninstalled X6.
I uninstalled X4 and reinstalled it. Same problem, the cpt thumbnails were not restored.
I decided to reinstall the X6 Trial version and that restored everything.
I have Windows 7, 64 bit and just realized that X6 handles large files much better in PhotoPaint.
X4 can't handle them very well, some layers don't even show up on the screen.
So I will buy the upgrade.
This thread was very helpful, thanks to all who contributed.
Tristan
Of course some of us do not want Windows to display thumbnails of Coreldraw images. I recall a time or two when I had to do a bit of nosing about to figure out how to uninstall the thumbnail view shell extension.