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Free Preview Handlers for Outlook 2007 and Vista

Both Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 offer you file previewing functions. Unfortunately, not all file types are handled and this Microsoft webpage simply mentions "Available File Previewers: Check back soon for updates. We are currently working with previewer developers to list previewers on this page."

Subjectively the most needed previewers are PDF-files and code files, simply because it still takes ages to load Adobe Acrobat Reader, or Visual Studio 2005 respectively.

Here are two free PDF-previewers:

• Foxit PDF file Preview Handler | does not require Adobe Reader


• PDF Preview Handler for Outlook/Vista by Ryan Gregg | does require free Adobe Reader 8

You can read more blog posts about these great tools here, here, here and here.

And here's the free Code Preview Handler from Tim Heuer:

• Code Preview Handler (source code)


• Code Preview Handler (msi installer)

To finish this post, here's a link to the post about the preview handler article by Stephen Toub from MSDN Magazine. You can also download his free utility directly here:

• Preview Handler Association Editor

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  Posted by oVan on Thursday, April 05, 2007 | PermaLink | 0 comments