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1. kevin_marci

   
   Posted on: August 01, 2008 at 3:42PM  

   How do you get the preview pane to stay on so that I don't have to go organize > layout > preview pane everytime I want to use it?

   Thanks for sharing this feature.
2. dovella

   
   Posted on: August 01, 2008 at 4:09PM  

   Nice Brandon!!
3. chakkaradeep

   
   Posted on: August 01, 2008 at 6:44PM  

   Brandon, many of my friends thought "Live Icons" is something to do with "Windows Live" (inlcuding me) :(

   Would be nice if we can rephrase it to more suit the Windows Desktop Search
4. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 1:52AM  

   chakkaradeep, Esther called this feature Live Icons in the video and unfortunately I can't change the video. I don't want to add confusion by changing the title and mentions of "Live Icons" in the post and have it not sync up with the video. I apologize for the confusion.

   Keep in mind - when we talk about anything Windows Live here on the blog it will be called "Windows Live" and never simply "Live" anything.

   Thanks,

   Brandon
5. jc3k

   
   Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 4:09AM  

   Live icons have never worked for me.  It works for images and movies.  But word documents, spreadsheets, text files etc stay as icons.  Even when I change the view to "Extra Large Icons".  

   Vista has been reinstalled a few times in the last year.  Under folder options, "Always show icons, never thumbnails" is unticked.

   I had actually come to assume that Live Icons was a dropped feature when I couldn't figure out how to turn it on.
6. someone

   
   Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 4:49AM  

   Wow such an earth-shattering feature, now only if Explorer saved/retained all settings including the View set for each folder, this would be of some use.
7. Windows Addict

   
   Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 6:54AM  

   PingBack from:

   http://windowsaddict.blogspot.com/2008/08/demo-live-icons-in-windows-vista.html
8. Strujillo.jr

   
   Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 7:20AM  

   I like instant search...nice feature...

   iblogtech.org
9. StophVista

   
   Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 2:19PM  

   jc3k for Office documents to word as icons you need to be sure to save a thumbnail when you save the document. For Office 2007 this is found right in the save box while other versions of office should have it under save options or something similar.
10. jc3k

    
    Posted on: August 02, 2008 at 8:37PM  

    StophVista:

    Thanks for that.  I had never noticed that option before.

    Not that I had looked for it in Word.  I assumed that it was Vista that would create the thumbnail, not the parent program.  So I'm guessing text files are out of the mix then?

    Thanks for clearing that up for me.