Thumbnails for Inventor .IPT/.IAM files not loading as of .1392a

[jevery7]

v1.5.0.1391a and before would display preview-style thumbnails for Inventor's .IPT and .IAM files.

But in version v1.5.0.1392a and later, Everything will only display Inventor's default icon for each file type, rather than a model preview.
(Thank you for the clean and quick installation program. It makes it easy to change versions.)

Other files, such as images, videos, 3MFs, DWG, and STLs are fine in all version of Everything, showing preview-style thumbnails normally.

I also tried each combination of settings for Everything's Windows service and run-as-admin, but this didn't bring back preview thumbnails. (Tools --> Options --> Run as Administrator and Everything Service settings, and by changing the run-as-admin toggle for the properties of everything.exe, per other threads here concerning thumbnail issues.)

[therube]

If you revert to 1391a, does your wanted behavior return?

[jevery7]

If you revert to 1391a, does your wanted behavior return?

Yes: 1391a and prior were fine and did the wanted behavior of showing preview-style thumbnails.

Attached examples: 1391a and prior show the model preview for the thumbnail.
1392a and later will only show the generic "Inventor Part/Assembly" icon.

[void]

Most likely an insecure dll.

1392a no longer loads insecure dlls.

Everything 1.5.0.1397a relaxes dll loading rules if Everything is installed.

Please try Everything 1.5.0.1397a.
Does the issue persist?



To allow insecure DLLs from the program/dll directory:

• From the Start menu, search for:
  regedit
• Right click Registry Editor and click Run as administrator.
• In the Registry Editor, navigate to:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
• Create the following key:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\voidtools
• Create the following key:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\voidtools\Everything
• In this new key, on the right, create a new DWORD value.
• Set the value name to:
  os_allow_dll_exe_directory
• Set the value data to:
  1

Restart Everything (Everything -> File -> Exit)



Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (from the File menu, click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

Loading insecure DLLs

[jevery7]

Most likely a insecure dll.

1392a no longer loads insecure dlls.

...

Loading insecure DLLs

os_allow_dll_exe_directory didn't have any effect, but from the "Loading insecure DLLs" link, adding DWORD os_allow_dll_current_directory and setting it to 1 did get Inventor's preview thumbnails working again. (v1397a)

Good to go now, thank you!

[Anthony Harris]

I cant get my autodesk Inventor thumbnails to show and have tried the above advice

[void]

Do the thumbnails for autodesk Inventor work in Windows Explorer?

-Please make sure you are using the x64 version of Everything
(Help -> About Everything -> Version)

To allow dlls from the current directory:

• From the Start menu, search for:
  regedit
• Right click Registry Editor and click Run as administrator.
• In the Registry Editor, navigate to:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
• Create the following key:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\voidtools
• Create the following key:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\voidtools\Everything
• In this new key, on the right, create a new DWORD value.
• Set the value name to:
  os_allow_dll_current_directory
• Set the value data to:
  1

Restart Everything (Everything -> File -> Exit)