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brookmiles / windows-heic-thumbnails

Enable Windows Explorer to display thumbnails for HEIC files
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Which app #4

Open macamajig opened 8 months ago

macamajig commented 8 months ago

It says "Run regsvr32 HEICThumbnailHandler.dll". Which app do I select? The first choice is Git for Windows. If I click it, it says "cannot execute binary file" Screenshot 2024-01-19 225424

brookmiles commented 8 months ago

It says "Run regsvr32 HEICThumbnailHandler.dll". Which app do I select?

regsvr32 HEICThumbnailHandler.dll is a command you should run from a command prompt, eg.

I would suggest making a folder specifically to hold this .dll before registering it (eg. C:\HEICThumbnailHandler\), so that you aren't installing it directly in your Downloads folder.

macamajig commented 8 months ago

Thanks. I seem to have completed the steps correctly, however the majority of my HEIC files still do now have a thumbnail. Even some of the jpegs don't have a thumbnail. Maybe it's because my computer is not new and the images are in an external hard drive with thousands of photos and videos.