Make the Preview pane in Vista to display contents of text based files
Q: How can I make the Preview pane to show the contents text-based files? For example, files that contain text content such as PHP | XML | SQL | CSS | CS | LOG | REG | VBS | JS don’t have text previews enabled by default. Is there a way to enable the Preview pane to show the contents of these files when clicked?
A: Having anticipated such questions, I wrote the utility PreviewConfig just after Windows Vista was RTM’ed. PreviewConfig helps you register custom file types with the Preview Pane in Windows Vista. This utility was published in my site on December 25, 2006.
PreviewConfig (63 Kb)
Select the file type from the listing, choose the type of Preview you want for this file type (Media or Plain text) and click Apply. The Preview pane in Windows Explorer should now show contents of the file selected.
Don’t you just love this tool?
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