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You'd have to look to find out if you don't want them installed (but, again, more and more apps are using WIC now for decoding of raw files, so personally, I'd leave them working).Īgain, just look at the file name under the thumbnail to tell if it's a raw file (ending in. Microsoft's Codec Pack may or may not show up under add/remove programs (or perhaps add/remove Windows features, a separate section for disabling Windows components).

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So, if you never had thumbnails for them visible in Win 7, you just never installed codecs for raw files from camera manufacturers, Microsoft, or third party developers offering them.Ĭhances are, you got the Microsoft Codecs when you installed one of their apps (since Canon only offers codecs for 32 bit versions of Windows, released originally for Vista, and never bothered to release codecs for 64 Bit Windows, leaving that up to Microsoft and others).

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You did need to install codecs in Win 7 before you would see thumbnails for raw files. They're also needed to see raw files from many camera models plugged into a USB port now (since PTP is being used, versus the camera showing up as a Mass Storage Device like an external drive would show up) Heck, even Adobe Bridge makes use of it when browsing folders. cr2 with a modern Canon model.Ī growing number of third party applications also make use of WIC features and use any installed codecs for decoding raw files. In any event, with Codecs installed for them, you can see the file names under the thumbnails and the raw file names will end with. But, you can find many threads from users that are trying to figure out why they are not seeing them and don't realize that codecs are needed for them.įor the best codecs with support for the most file types, more features, fast decoding try the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack linked to above. This is only the second thread in my memory that I can recall from someone that did not want to see thumbnails.

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When users do not see preview thumbnails for their raw files (and only see icons for them instead) they start threads here wanting them, and we point them to the download links for the needed codecs. But, you can find downloads for most raw formats now from Microsoft, Camera Manufacturers, or third party developers. The entire idea of having thumbnails for them is so you can browse folders and see those raw files via thumbnails with preview images (versus only icons for the raw files).īy default, only a small number of file types are supported without additional codecs (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP and HD Photo). Of course, if you're shooting raw + jpeg (both file types in the same folder), then you're going to see two thumbnails (one for the raw file, one for the jpeg file) if codecs for both are installed and working.

With Win 7, something else you installed probably installed a raw codec pack, too.

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See more about it along with supported camera formats here:ĪFAIK, it's already installed by default with Win 8.x now (with Windows update including newer versions of it periodically when new formats are added). The last update to the Win 7 version was in October of last year. I suggest using the FastPictureviewer codec pack, as it's very nice, supports more formats and has more features compared to other codec packs, including the ones that Microsoft has available now.Īnyway, in 2011, Microsoft started releasing it's own raw codec pack for Windows.

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See more about WIC and codecs on that same page:īy default, only a small number of file formats (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP and HD Photo) were supported in Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default, unless you installed more codecs yourself (either from a camera manufacturer, or from a third party software developer). Note links to codecs for WIC on this page:

That feature allows for codecs to be installed so that decoding of image formats is available in WIC enabled applications (including Windows Explorer, the file manager built into Windows).Ĭamera manufacturers (for example, Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Sony) started releasing codecs for their raw files that could be installed in Windows beginning in 2008. They also added WIC to Windows XP beginning with Service Pack 3. Microsoft included a feature called WIC (Windows Imaging Component) starting with Vista (then Windows 7 and Windows 8.x). jpeg, you're looking at a jpeg thumbnail. You should see the file names under the thumbnails. cr2 files, versus an icon only for them). That's what you should see if codecs are installed and working OK (a thumbnail showing the image preview for your.