Recently had problematic re-install of both X3 and X5. Finally succeeded in sequential numeric order (i.e. first X3 and then X5). However now, CONNECT X5 no longer displays CDR vector file thumbnails. Currently CDRs are associated with X3. Is that the possible cause? What else might be contributing to this problem?
Thanks for any and all ideas!
Happy New Year!
Put the X5 DVD in the drive and when the install menu appears, choose Repair. This will fix your file associations and perhaps even restore the thumbnail preview (that may be casued by the Corel Windows Shell extension.)
Hi Hugh!
V-wha-lah! Say Magnifiqué!!! THANK YOU! You make it look easy, Sir! Thumbnails are restored!
Have a great 2011!
The Professor said: Hugh, Many thanks for your helpful reply - you were spot on about the Windows Shell Extension, installing it solved the problem, so well done. However, this does beg the obvious question: why, if I'd opted to install Connect, did the installation program allow me to de-select Windows Shell Extension - it should have immediately flagged up a warning, telling me that if I chose not to install it, Connect won't work properly. Better still the installation program should auto selcted shell extension and then grey it out, if Connect is to be installed. It would have saved me (and probably many other users) a lot of trouble. Anyway, thanks again for your help.
Hugh,
Many thanks for your helpful reply - you were spot on about the Windows Shell Extension, installing it solved the problem, so well done.
However, this does beg the obvious question: why, if I'd opted to install Connect, did the installation program allow me to de-select Windows Shell Extension - it should have immediately flagged up a warning, telling me that if I chose not to install it, Connect won't work properly. Better still the installation program should auto selcted shell extension and then grey it out, if Connect is to be installed. It would have saved me (and probably many other users) a lot of trouble.
Anyway, thanks again for your help.
If you performed a standard, recommended installation, the Shell Extension should have been installed, automatically. If you performed a selected install, choosing the components that you want installed, you may have not selected the Shell Extension for installation. I admit, on a selected component install, that there is no implied or actual explanation for installing the Shell Extension.
Any way, I am glad that you are up and running.
Yes I did a custom install. I'm pretty sure I manually de-selected the Shell Extension. I don't like software clutter or programs running in the background, clogging the system up and slowing things down - unless they're essential. When I de-slected the shell extension - the Corel install program should immediately have flagged this up.
Anyway, all's well that ends well - so they say.
In my previous post, I said that, "all's well that ends well". Well, I hesitate to say it, but I'm not sure it has ended yet.
Although Connect is now displaying CDR and CPT files properly (great!) it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files - is it supposed to? All I'm getting it the generic icon.
Tnanks.
The Professor said: In my previous post, I said that, "all's well that ends well". Well, I hesitate to say it, but I'm not sure it has ended yet. Although Connect is now displaying CDR and CPT files properly (great!) it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files - is it supposed to? All I'm getting it the generic icon. Tnanks.
The shell extension is just that, an extension to the Windows Shell file handling. The Corel Shell Extension only adds the CDR and CPT to the thumbnail image handling of Windows.
Using Windows own Explorer, and setting the view to Medium Icons or better, then you can see the Windows Metafile Format images....(It is a Windows "thing".)
I've been struggling with the same issue. I've done the default installation (everything is installed, no questions asked...). Is it really so, that thumbnails are not shown with such an istallation? I looked windows program list, shell extension is there. I also did repair thing...no thumbnails shown, only corel icon.
I have win7/64 bit. I'm not sure could this be a problem of finnish language in windows.....my corel is english.
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