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Preview shows up for disabled PDF filetype

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I have disabled preview of PDF filetype in web & office file category but XYplorer shows preview. :veryconfused: Other disabled filetypes are not showing the preview.

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Tamil wrote:I have disabled preview of PDF filetype in web & office file category but XYplorer shows preview. :veryconfused: Other disabled filetypes are not showing the preview.
I think it shows just the thumbnails (preview created by shell). To exclude even this you can use the NoPrevShell tweak.

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    + Tweak to exclude certain file types (identified by extension) from 
      the shell-made preview and thumbnails.
      This would exclude MHT and URL files:
        [Settings]
        NoPrevShell=.mht.url.
In your case this would be enough:

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NoPrevShell=pdf

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Thanks. :D

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XYplorer used to hang when I browse a folder containing PDF files. Unregistering the pdfshell.dll by running the following command solved the problem.

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regsvr32 /u "%CommonProgramFiles%\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\pdfshell.dll"

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Aha, interesting. What is/does pdfshell.dll?

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