arcsoft.com/
products/rawviewer/. It adds thumbnail support to Vista for RAW formats
from Canon, Hasselblad, Kodak, Leica, Mamiya, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax,
Ricoh, Samsung, Sigma, and Sony, and even works with Adobe Digital Negative
(DNG) files.
The alternative is to use a separate picture viewer with its own thumbnail
display, like Google??™s free Picasa manager (http://picasa.google.com/), or
commercial products like Adobe Photoshop Elements (http://www.adobe.com/)
and DxO Optics Pro (http://dxo.com/).
To add thumbnail support for new video formats, just install the latest video
codecs, covered later in this chapter, and Vista will do the rest.
Get Rid of the Windows Photo Gallery
Like the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer found in Windows XP, Vista??™s
own Windows Photo Gallery application is not easy to get rid of. You can
install a new application that makes itself the default for your image files,
and in some cases, the Windows Photo Gallery will still appear when you
double-click image files.
If you want to use another image viewer without making any
changes to your system, there are ways to open images other
than double-clicking. For instance, you can drag-drop an
image file onto the window of any viewer to open it, or even
right-click an image file and select Open With to choose
another program.
To choose a different application as the default for photos, you may have to
disable the Windows Photo Gallery:
1. Open the Registry Editor (described in Chapter 3).
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