{"id":29386,"date":"2022-10-21T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=29386"},"modified":"2024-01-31T22:53:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T17:23:58","slug":"preview-pane-blank-every-file-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/preview-pane-blank-every-file-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview Pane is Blank for Every File Type Except Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen the &#8220;No preview available&#8221; situations before, caused by the incorrect or missing preview handler registration for a file type. Here is a similar problem: the preview pane is empty, showing just the white space for all file types except images.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/preview-pane-blank-white-1.png\" alt=\"preview pane blank white all file types\" width=\"760\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the image file types may preview correctly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/preview-pane-blank-white-2.png\" alt=\"preview pane blank white all file types\" width=\"760\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above issue happens due to a missing Preview Handler Surrogate Host registration.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>To resolve the issue, download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/prevhost.zip\">prevhost.reg<\/a> and run it.<\/p>\n<h4>INFO: Contents of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-use-reg-files-registration-entries-windows\/\">REG<\/a> file<\/h4>\n<pre>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00\n\n[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\AppID\\{6d2b5079-2f0b-48dd-ab7f-97cec514d30b}]\n@=\"Preview Handler Surrogate Host\"\n\"DllSurrogate\"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\\\n00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\\\n70,00,72,00,65,00,76,00,68,00,6f,00,73,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00,\\\n00<\/pre>\n<p>Note that the &#8220;DllSurrogate&#8221; hex code above simply means <strong>%SystemRoot%\\system32\\prevhost.exe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(The above fix applies to all versions of Windows 10 and 11.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, check out the other articles on Preview handlers and thumbnails in Windows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/disable-preview-pane-file-types-explorer\/\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">How to Disable Preview for Certain File Types in Explorer Preview Pane<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-preview-not-available-thumbnail-media-files\/\">Fix: No Video Thumbnails and No Preview Available for Video Files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-thumbnail-preview-for-pictures-w7-vista\/\">Thumbnails Not Showing up in File Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/preview-pane-video-image-not-updated-windows-10\/\">Preview Pane Not Refreshing Preview for Video Files in Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-preview-not-available-thumbnail-media-files\/\">Fix: No Video Thumbnails and No Preview Available for Video Files<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that helps. Let&#8217;s know your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen the &#8220;No preview available&#8221; situations before, caused by the incorrect or missing preview handler registration for a file type. Here is a similar problem: the preview pane is empty, showing just the white space for all file types except images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,869],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-29386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":296,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/previewconfig-tool-registers-file-types-for-the-preview-pane-in-windows-vista\/","url_meta":{"origin":29386,"position":0},"title":"PreviewConfig tool registers file types for the Preview Pane in Windows 7\/Vista","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Windows Vista introduces the Preview pane in Explorer, which shows the contents of the currently chosen file. 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