If you work with Adobe Photoshop, even half as much as you say you do.. I’m sure by now you may have noticed that you are unable to view  thumbnails of PSD files in Windows Explorer. For some unknown reason, Adobe has decided it’s best to just remove this particular functionality for Photoshop users. How amazingly thoughtful of them.

So, if you’re like me and decide you don’t want to have to open a Photoshop, or the Adobe browser, everytime you want to view a thumbnail of a PSD file.. read on.

Here’s a quick, and easy, method of  adding the ability to view thumbnails of .psd files without opening (or heck, even installing!) Adobe Photoshop.

1. First, you need to download the necessary PSD Thumbnail Shell DLL file.
2. UnZip the psdthumbnaildll.zip file you just downloaded, and copy that file to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\ (if it doesn’t exist yet, create it).
3. Download and run this registry file. It will add the necessary changes to your registry to allow the Shell to access the new Adobe DLL.
4. Restart your system.
5. …
6. PSD THUMBNAILS!

I was out to dinner the other night when I stumbled upon this gem. Looks like they run Windows on the gas pumps, and well.. we all know what happens when Windows is involved! BSOD!! I pulled up to the pump and instead of the usual looping ads, I was confronted with a blue screen of death. It looks like they were running Windows XP and didn’t set it to automatically reboot on halts. I thought this was hilarious.. time to get Geeksquad out here to fix the pump!! LOL! I had to take several pics, here’s one of the better shots.