CR2 RAW Thumbnails

The CR2 file is a RAW format from Canon cameras. To open this file you need  to have a software capable to handle it, like photoshop or lightroom. But when organizing folders and files on windows explorer by default don't show the thumbnails. Canon have a codec for this but only work under Windows XP, Vista and 7 x86 - 32bit.

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0039964.asp


For people, like me that are using 64 bit windows the codec don't work. Thanks to God the is a free solution. Microsoft have made a Camera Codec Pack that is avaliable to 32 bit and 64 bit windows versions:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

After install, the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack enables the viewing of a variety of device-specific file formats in Window Live Photo Gallery as well as other software that is based in Windows Imaging. And also viewable in Windows Explorer.

No need to restart!