Suggestion: Toggle which previews are active.

[Bamsen]

Specifically I am interested in disabling Excel preview as this holds the macro file open so it fails if you open an excel sheet from Everything.
I would normally like to have preview active at all times, but now I must be careful to close preview if I want to open Excel files.
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Morten

[therube]

this holds the macro file open

So is this different from "just" opening an Excel spreadsheet, as in you have to have an Excel spreadsheet that uses "macros" ?

As in "just" opening an Excel spreadsheet, & Previewing it in Everything, did not stop me from opening the same file in Excel.
(Didn't try changing saving, should I have?)

[void]

Everything 1.4 does not have a preview filter.


Consider disabling previews for Excel system wide:

• From the Start menu, search for: regedit
• Right-click Registry Editor and click Run as administrator.
• Navigate to:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xlsx\ShellEx
  Rename the following subkey:
  {8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}
  to:
  _{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}
• Navigate to:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls\ShellEx
  Rename the following subkey:
  {8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}
  to:
  _{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}

The next major version of Everything will support a preview filter.
If you would like to try this now, please check out the Everything 1.5 alpha.

To exclude xls and xlsx files from the preview pane in Everything 1.5:

• In Everything 1.5, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /preview_exclude_files=*.xls;*.xlsx
• If successful, preview_exclude_files=*.xls;*.xlsx is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

preview_exclude_files

[Bamsen]

Thank You! That was exactly what I was looking for. (I am using 1.5 alpha)
I Added the exclude to the ini file and now when I open Excel documents, I do not get an error from PERSONAL.XLSB beeing locked or already open in another session.
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Morten A. Steien