Why use the same old icons when you can use thumbnails

[charleychacko]

When you select a folder with bitmaps in Windows Explorer, it'll indicate all bitmap files using the same old icon. Did you know that you can make Windows display a thumbnail of those bitmaps instead?

Run "Registry Editor" (run RegEdit.exe)
Select "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp" and note the "default" value for it ("Paint.Picture" for example)
Now select "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture" ("Paint.Picture" being the default value as explained above)
Double click on "default"
Type "%1" without the quotes and press ENTER
Restart Windows
Now when you view directories with bitmap files, you'll actually see a small (32x32 by default) representation of those pictures.