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Explorer preview integration not working properly after upgrading Win10 to Win11 #35387

Open otraupe opened 1 week ago

otraupe commented 1 week ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.85.1

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

File Explorer: Preview Pane

Steps to reproduce

I had issues after upgrading to Win11. PDF, TXT, and SVG previews were not working anymore.

Here is what I had to do to fix it: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/windows-11-pro-no-longer-shows-preview-of-pdf-files.19042/post-511236

In short: I had to DISable PDF and Source code file previews in Power Toys.

PDF, and TXT might have to do with conflicting preview handlers (Acrobat handler for PDF, Windows built-in handler for TXT).

Weird though that I had to DISable SVG previews and ENable SVG thumbnail previews for them to work again in the preview pane.

✔️ Expected Behavior

I was expecting that nothing would change due to the upgrade to Win11, as I had not installed any programs or apps afterwords.

❌ Actual Behavior

Previews for PDF, TXT and SVG had stopped working in the preview pane.

Other Software

Likely Adobe Acrobat PDF preview handler, Win11 built-in TXT preview handler (if exists)

AudioAnchorite commented 10 hours ago

I have a similar issue, except that in my case, I can see that SVG and PDF previews are working, but TXT previews will not...

errr, wait a second, as I was typing this, all of a sudden it started working perfectly. I didn't even change any settings.

That's very odd.

AudioAnchorite commented 3 hours ago

The only thing I can think of to explain this behavior is that I uninstalled and reinstalled PowerToys and then disabled ans re-enabled Peek before I posted the above message, and that there was a delayed resolution of the preview pane error for some reason.