Overview
What is ThumbView Lite?
ThumbView Lite : ThumbView : Adds thumbnail support for DDS, PCX, TGA and 16 other image type for Windows XP
In depth
A closer look at ThumbView Lite
ThumbView enables thumbnails and tool tips in MS-Windows XP Explorer for file types that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, and DDS, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types, directly in Explorer! The program is not run as a process and will not consume memory nor CPU time; it is a shell extension (COM) called by Windows when it wants to display a thumbnail. There are two packages: ThumbView and ThumbView Lite. The first is more for developers, as it allows easy extensibility by downloading or creating custom Thumbnail Extractors.
Requirements
System requirements
Windows XP
Verdict
Should you download ThumbView Lite?
ThumbView Lite runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 403 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Desktop Tools.
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At a glance
ThumbView Lite specifications
- Publisher
-
John-Philip Johansson
- Last updated
- May 1, 2026
- Requirements
- Windows XP
- License
- Freeware
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 403 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 654
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