Tell preview pane to... preview a known "normal" text file

Hello,

I've been searching around and I haven't find (for my surprise) the
following question. How can I make the "preview pane" to preview, some well
known text files? What I want is to be able to preview PHP, CSS, JS etc
files. These are known simple text files, and it would be great to have a
glimpse of whats inside before opening it.

Is there a way? Maybe some regedit hack?

I also leave the suggestion, to make some simple app to manage this (as long
with the changing of filetype icons, instead of going into regedit)

Thanks in advanced,

Pedro Pereira

If you use Total Commander (a file manager program) you can see inside any
file by using their inbuilt file viewer without opening the file with the
normal associated program. Plus, TC does so much more than Windows Explorer
ever will.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"PMPP" <> wrote in message
news:6B599389-FB35-4865-BDA7-...
> Hello,
>
> I've been searching around and I haven't find (for my surprise) the
> following question. How can I make the "preview pane" to preview, some
> well
> known text files? What I want is to be able to preview PHP, CSS, JS etc
> files. These are known simple text files, and it would be great to have a
> glimpse of whats inside before opening it.
>
> Is there a way? Maybe some regedit hack?
>
> I also leave the suggestion, to make some simple app to manage this (as
> long
> with the changing of filetype icons, instead of going into regedit)
>
> Thanks in advanced,
>
> Pedro Pereira

>> to make some simple app to manage this

There is one already, written by me sometime ago. See:

[PreviewConfig] Utility to register file types for Explorer Preview Pane in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"PMPP" <> wrote in message news:6B599389-FB35-4865-BDA7-...
Hello,

I've been searching around and I haven't find (for my surprise) the
following question. How can I make the "preview pane" to preview, some well
known text files? What I want is to be able to preview PHP, CSS, JS etc
files. These are known simple text files, and it would be great to have a
glimpse of whats inside before opening it.

Is there a way? Maybe some regedit hack?

I also leave the suggestion, to make some simple app to manage this (as long
with the changing of filetype icons, instead of going into regedit)

Thanks in advanced,

Pedro Pereira

Thanks Richard, I'll take a look at Total Commander, nevertheless it would be
nice if Vista would give us the chance to use it. Although I might feel
comfortable around computers (thus having no problem trying new things) for
the average person (like my family), not having to learn something new is of
great interest for them.

So I hope MS ppl will take a look at that.

Thanks for the help.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> If you use Total Commander (a file manager program) you can see inside any
> file by using their inbuilt file viewer without opening the file with the
> normal associated program. Plus, TC does so much more than Windows Explorer
> ever will.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
>
> "PMPP" <> wrote in message
> news:6B599389-FB35-4865-BDA7-...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been searching around and I haven't find (for my surprise) the
> > following question. How can I make the "preview pane" to preview, some
> > well
> > known text files? What I want is to be able to preview PHP, CSS, JS etc
> > files. These are known simple text files, and it would be great to have a
> > glimpse of whats inside before opening it.
> >
> > Is there a way? Maybe some regedit hack?
> >
> > I also leave the suggestion, to make some simple app to manage this (as
> > long
> > with the changing of filetype icons, instead of going into regedit)
> >
> > Thanks in advanced,
> >
> > Pedro Pereira
>
>