Doubling Thumbnail Sizes

[Udedenkz]

I doubled the thumbnail sizes with Tweak UI. Ofcource there is a ton of problem with this,

- Picture Thumbnails are pixelated (not Video)

- Folders Icon w. Pictures Inside is pixelated

- Other icons are not stretched to the new thumbnail size / higher resolution thumbnail is not initiated

Any suggestions on fixing / circumventing these problems?

If new icons are necessary, I am using Luna Element Style.

Thank you! :)

[Pam14160]

Go to "System Restore" and choose a restore point prior to existing problem. This should fix the problem. :)

[Udedenkz]

Go to "System Restore" and choose a restore point prior to existing problem. This should fix the problem. :)

You misunderstood,

I want bigger thumbnails. I am asking how to make bigger thumbnails work perfectly on Windows XP.

[master2k27]

all XP icons are going to made just for the largest size , whereas Vista / 7 icons are made for much bigger use. if you want to you must make re make evey icon

prob wrong but you never know :p

[Pam14160]

Sorry. There is really no way to do this within XP. There are several excellent programs/applications out there that can help you get what you are looking for as to viewing pictures/photos. But, they will do nothing to help you in explorer.exe (File Manager) only when viewing your pictures/photos. Faststone is one of the best for viewing pictures/photos. Hope this helps.

[Udedenkz]

Ok, you can change the thumbnail size, and thumbnail quality, and you can replace Windows icons.

So, if I go replace the icons with icons that contain higher resolutions for the double thumbnail size, there is no way to tell explorer to load those bigger icons?

[Pam14160]

Sorry for not answering sooner, had to go play golf.

No. There is no way within XP to do this. Vista and Win 7 allows you to control the size of your pictures and icons. Here are a couple screen shots of Win 7's Explorer.exe (file manager) with the icons and pictures resized. They can go a little larger than shown.

[Fraud OS 11]

I doubled the thumbnail sizes with Tweak UI. Ofcource there is a ton of problem with this,

- Picture Thumbnails are pixelated (not Video)

- Folders Icon w. Pictures Inside is pixelated

- Other icons are not stretched to the new thumbnail size / higher resolution thumbnail is not initiated

Any suggestions on fixing / circumventing these problems?

If new icons are necessary, I am using Luna Element Style.

Thank you! :)

Have you moved the slider for thumbnails to highest quality in TweakUI? I've set mine to 192 x 192 but none of them are pixellated.

[Udedenkz]

Have you moved the slider for thumbnails to highest quality in TweakUI? I've set mine to 192 x 192 but none of them are pixellated.

If that was the only problem I had I would have stayed with bigger thumbnails. My main problem is with bigger thumbnails, the folders and other icons do not adjust - explorer does not load the appropriate size icons - only for thumbnails on folder does the folder actually take the size of the thumbnail dimensions but it comes out pixelated - obviously - as explorer stretches it. I just don't like having in thumbnail views these little tiny icons for uTorrent and tiny folder icons... looks very bad.

So I just need to get explorer to try to load bigger icons for all its applications (if they exist) or stretch the biggest icons for its thumbnail view (like Vista / 7 does). And for the pixelated thumbnails - it only happens for some of the files - others actually adjust their thumbnail quality. If PNGs weren't so space consuming I would just have converted all my jpgs to pngs to solve the issue.

If this requires reshacking explorer.exe - that is no problem for me.

Now, on a different topic, I just tried a different icon pack for XP but it doesn't apply to folder thumbnail - any way to disable the folder thumbnail - in other words - stop XP from giving a sneak peak into image folders? This has nothing to do with the topic.