

A few clicks here and there, and it gets the job done. As you can see, the methods to disable the thumbnail previews are simple. Don’t forget to click OK to save everything. Choose Enabled to turn off the preview in Windows/File Explorer.

Now from the window that appears, click on Settings under the Performance Check the box behind Show thumbnails instead of icons. To the right of the pane, double-click on the Turn off the display icons.

Now on the left hand side, you will see a link that says Advanced system settings. It’s just Microsoft being too cheap to pay for their own RAW parser, like (for example) Apple does. Press Windows key + X to invoke the pop-up menu above the start button. That would be an understandable sacrifice if Windows 10 itself was open source, but it’s not. (Their closed-source FastRAWViewer does have preliminary CR3 support, so I assume libraw will gain the support eventually.) Microsoft’s RAW support will therefore remain incomplete indefinitely. It doesn’t reflect well on Microsoft that it took them until 2019 to try to address RAW files, and when they finally did, they decided to be lazy and rely on libraw’s clean-room reverse engineering efforts, instead of signing NDAs with the camera makers and implementing the actual written specs.Īs much as I admire the efforts of the libraw authors and the determination to keep things open source, their support sometimes lag the latest state of art by quite a bit-for example, the published version of libraw as of today still does not support Canon CR3, which is used in EOS M50, R and RP.
