Otak Atik [dot] Com » BMP file http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:06:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Preview BMP File as Its Icon http://www.otakatik.com/preview-bmp-file-as-its-icon/ http://www.otakatik.com/preview-bmp-file-as-its-icon/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:08:48 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/preview-bmp-file-as-its-icon/ By default, when you’re browsing your bitmap files (*.bmp), you’ll look their default icon. And the icon is the same for all of bitmap files. And that does not be a problem for common users, but if you often to seeking for a bitmap file, that could be a problem because you can’t see its content. Fortunately, you can hack the registry to force system to preview the bitmap file content as its icon.

The default icon for bmp files are like this picture.
Default bitmap files icon
And here is the way:

  1. Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run menu (or press Windows + R keys), enter regedit in box and then press Enter key.
    Registry path
  2. Drive to this registry path: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Paint.Picture \ DefaultIcon.
    Registry path
    Registry path
  3. The default value for Default value in DefaultIcon key is shimgvw.dll,1.
    Default value data
  4. We need to modify Default value by double click Default value, replace the original value
    Original value
    to %1 and then click OK button.
    New value data
  5. Then you’ll get this appearance on DefaultIcon key.
    Modified appearance
  6. Close Registry Editor and restart your computer.
  7. Now, try to open your folder where contains bmp files, if you can see their icon that represent its icon, it means you did these steps right.
    Result

To back to the original configuration, just give Default value to shimgvw.dll,1.
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