Top 15 ThumbView Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any Explorer window:
Image types supported.cut, .dcx, .dds, .mdl, .mng, .pcd, .pcx, .pic, .pix, .png, .pnm/.pbm/.pgm/.ppm,
.psd/.pdd, .psp, .pxr, .sgi/.rgb, .tga/.vda/.icb/.vst, .tif/.tiff, .wal, .xpm.

1. Icaros

Icaros Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype. Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg which includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4,......

2. FastPreview

FastPreview FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.It is now a pretty handy tool to display images in a fast manner and is an alternative to the functionality Windows has built-in.Features:Fast Viewer - Showing the image incl. different scaling types......

3. MysticThumbs

MysticThumbs MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images. It is a native Windows Explorer plugin which means you don't have to do anything......

4. SVG Explorer Extension

SVG Explorer Extension Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.......

5. Instant Elevator Music

Instant Elevator Music Instant Elevator Music is a simple application designed to automatically play elevator music while you wait for programs to open, files to copy, and downloads to finish.Ever wanted to have elevator music while you wait for your computer to finish things? Now you can with Instant Elevator Music!You can also......

6. PropertiesPlus

PropertiesPlus PropertiesPlus is a free add-on for your Windows Explorer. It adds additional functionality to your right-click menu under the menu option PropertiesPlus. Here you'll be able to modify file attributes, file extensions, and the time stamps of single files, multiple files, or files contained within the folders. Display the bytes......

7. Instant ThumbView

Instant ThumbView Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick......

8. QTTabBar

QTTabBar QTTabBar is an extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser. It comes with a number of nifty features including a favorites function for launching folders and applications, groupings of folders that can be opened together, tooltip preview functions for a number of file types, and......

9. SageThumbs

SageThumbs SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL library (XnView's author).Features Extended thumbnail image view of Explorer folder Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (right-click menu) Extended info tips Support 162 image formats (224 extensions)......

10. FirmTools ShellExtension

FirmTools ShellExtension FirmTools ShellExtension is a real handy freebie for Windows users.Install this tool and it will add three new options to your menu when you right click on a picture file: convert, print, and thumbnail preview. Converting supports most of the formats you will ever need: JPEG, TIFF, PSD, PNG, GIF,......

11. Right Click Context Menu Adder

Right Click Context Menu Adder Right Click Context Menu Adder it’s a free and portable utility which allows you to add your favorite program shortcut, website link, file or folder shortcut in Windows 7 and Windows 8 Desktop context menu quickly and easily. You will not need to modify Windows Registry yourself, this software will......

12. WhoLockMe

WhoLockMe Have you ever bored by this Windows message : "Error Deleting File or Folder, ... There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use.", when you try to delete, move or rename a file?WhoLockMe is a little extension for your Microsoft Explorer. It permits......

13. Folders Popup

Folders Popup Folders Popup lets you move like a breeze between your frequently used folders, documents and links! Have all your favorites at your finger tip - press the middle mouse button to popup your personalized menu. You can add, reorder, remove or rename favorites in the Settings window. Group favorites by......

14. Clover

Clover Wings for your Windows Explorer!Clover is an extension of the Windows Explorer, to add multi-tab functionality similar to Google Chrome browser. After Clover is installed, you will be able to open multiple folders within the same window, and you can also be able to add folder bookmarks.......

15. DeskPins

DeskPins DeskPins can be used to make any application topmost, that is, to keep it above all other windows. Just grab a pin from the DeskPins icon in the system notification area (a.k.a. taskbar tray) and click on any window. This functionality is identical to the "Always on Top" setting found......