Allow previewing and custom thumbnails of OpenSearch query results in Windows Explorer


This policy setting allows you to manage whether a user may preview an item from this zone or display custom thumbnails in the preview pane in Windows Explorer. While this policy setting usually applies to items returned by OpenSearch queries using Search Connectors (which allow rich searching of remote sources from within the Windows Explorer), it might affect other items as well that are marked from this zone. For example, some application-specific items such as MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) items that are returned as search results in Windows Explorer will be affected. MAPI items reside in the Internet zone, so disabling this policy for the Internet zone will prevent the previewing of these items in Windows Explorer. For the case of custom thumbnails, it is the zone of the thumbnail that is checked, not the zone of item. Typically these are the same but a source is able to define a specific location of a thumbnail that is different than the location of the item.

If you enable this policy setting, users can preview items and get custom thumbnails from OpenSearch query results in this zone using Windows Explorer.

If you disable this policy setting, users will be prevented from previewing items and get custom thumbnails from OpenSearch query results in this zone using Windows Explorer.

If you do not configure this policy setting, users can preview items and get custom thumbnails from OpenSearch query results in this zone using Windows Explorer.

Changes to this setting may not be applied until the user logs off from Windows.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0
Value Name180F
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value0
Disabled Value3

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