After my silly computer picked up virus somewhere, It doesn't work quite right anymore. Our computer "I.T." guy is to busy playing Halo to help, so i thought I might try all you gals and guys. I got most of the problem fixed, now all I need to do it be able to view pictures! UNO how you bring up "my computer" then find a folder you want to look at that has pictures? Well before the virus the in the right hand of the screen, it used to show a little picture of the VILE. You could click on it and it would pull up the picture program and picture. Well now i dont get a preview (picture) in the right hand window. Just the stupid program icon. How do I turn that back on so i can see my pics without having to click on every single one. Thanks you so much for any help. It would mean so much to me if someone would be so kind. I'll even bake you an apple pie and mail it to ya! ;-)   Right click on a GRAPHIC file, click "Open with", and select program, you want to view your pictures with.I knew I wasn't making myself clear. Thanks for trying but I can figure out to open an image file. But I dont want to... just YET. I wanna see the picture before I open it. It use to show a small picture and what the file name was underneith it.  Click "my pictures." In the right hand window you see a bunch of your photos with the file name WITHOUT having to open it up. Do you now what i mean?  Not sure how else to explain it. It sounds like you want ‘Thumbnail’ view where Explorer shows a little picture of each image file. Click the ‘View’ menu and see if ‘Thumbnail’ view is selected.Jennifer

If you follow Broni's advice, you will find that in addition to "select a program" you should also find (lower down) a box that can be checked to "Always open with ...".

I believe checking that box will PROVIDE "File Attribute" information, without which you are unlikely to ever have a preview.

Regards
Alan