Still trying to fix my thumbnails and file previews. What happened after I uninstalled X6 was that the file preview (the one in the preview pane that shows all the pages of the file) went away, just get a message "No preview available". I posted about this in another thread a while ago and didn't have much luck. So, I'm back at this now that I have time and I'm trying all the suggested options. One thing was to uninstall the shell extension and reinstall. Well, tried that and the X6 shell extension goes away nicely but the X5 shell extension will not uninstall. It pops up the dialog asking if I want to uninstall then does nothing. I can't re-install if it won't let me get rid of the version that's already in there.
Running win 7, and have already tried doing a repair install of X5 and re-installed the SP3 patch, still no help. I get most of the file thumbnails, but not all of them, and no preview pane.
What I'm looking for is a "force uninstall" or a program that will clean out the shell extension files & registry so that I can start fresh. Any ideas?
uninstall windows shell extension that come with x6. but it also removed shell extension for other cdraw program installed. and then repair your old cdraw...
Anthonie Van Hayu said: uninstall windows shell extension that come with x6. but it also removed shell extension for other cdraw program installed. and then repair your old cdraw...
Already tried that - Draw X6 shell extension uninstalls properly, Draw X5 shell extension does not uninstall. Already tried a repair install on X5.
Not sure if you ever figured this out, but a program that will Force Uninstall and clean the registry of all traces of that file is called Revo Uninstaller