pre view of HTM and HTML files as thumbnails in Windows XP Home

There is no straight forward way to enable preview for HTM and HTML files in "Windows Explorer" of "Windows XP Home".

But the winXP home tweek is to copy the following contents to a Notepad document and save as "c:\htm.reg" with quotes.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shellex\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3}"

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Then type c:\htm.reg in Start/Run, to merge the contents.



Addional information from Carrie Grath, MVP will help:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=%233K3YJPZEHA...

Credit: Ramesh, Microsoft MVP, Windows XP Shell/User http://windowsxp.mvps.org/