Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

re: Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

mjsmead — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:11:59 GMT

I don't get document page just icon for document type like W for Word or X for excel

What am I missing

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Sentium — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:59:42 GMT

Thanks Esther. I hope there will be more videos featuring other Vista enhancements, tips and tricks, and advice. Nice job on this video and your previous video.

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chakkaradeep — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:06:40 GMT

Thanks for the reply Brandon :)

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Quikboy — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:42:36 GMT

That's a really awesome feature. XP doesn't have anything convenient like that built in. Previewing files is pretty useful.

It's also nice to note that this is a feature Windows had before OS X. Though of course, it doesn't have the rich GUI goodness of Apple's Quick Look, but it was first, and you can actually interact with the file preview.

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jc3k — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:37:51 GMT

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.

re: Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

StophVista — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:19:14 GMT

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.

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Strujillo.jr — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:20:41 GMT

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

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Windows Addict — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:54:08 GMT

PingBack from:

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

re: Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

someone — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:49:24 GMT

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.

re: Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

jc3k — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:09:07 GMT

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.

re: Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

Brandon LeBlanc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:52:19 GMT

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

re: Demo: Live Icons in Windows Vista

chakkaradeep — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:44:33 GMT

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

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dovella — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:09:26 GMT

Nice Brandon!!

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kevin_marci — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:42:12 GMT

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.