What's up with Vista and WMF files?

[JeepinEd]

I just built a new rig and decided to run Vista Home Premium.

Well, I just found out that Vista will not show thumbnails of WMF files.

My wife has a large collection of clip art, which she uses regularly. Most of these files are in WMF format, so now she's upset because she can't just search the folder for a clip art file that she wants to use.

Has anyone run into this and what is the best solution?

Thanks.


Edit: I did a search for WMF and found nothing here.....

 

[A5]

I think it's part of the protection against that WMF exploit that came out a few months ago. Having the OS automatically execute/open a known exploitable filetype would be pretty dumb.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Why not simply convert the WMF files to a better format?

 

[ChronoReverse]

I'm more surprised that she was using a relatively obscure (to average computer users) format.

 

[JeepinEd]

Isn't WMF a Windows format?
Funny that they can no longer support their own format.

Yeah, the file types are pretty obscure, but allot of clip art disks use this format. (or used to... she's had the disks for a while now).

Is anyone familiar with a shareware program that can do batch conversions?
I did a search and found a few, but I don't like installing unknown programs. I'd rather go with something that someone has experience with.

The downside to just converting the files, is that my wife downloads clip art from Microsoft all the time. Most of these files are in the now dreaded .wmf format.

 

[QuixoticOne]

This will batch convert, it's probably the best "industrial strength" command line driven batch converter, though not as easy to use unless you read about the options and go to command prompt level (but really it's probably just a simple line like "convert -format png *.wmf" that you need):
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

As will the resizer program here AFAIK:
http://www.faststone.org/

Also check out the faststone image browser, it may very well do a thumbnail display of your EXISTING collections of WMF files and thus make it easy to keep them and not convert them:
http://www.faststone.org/

For another free browser that may perhaps easily navigate your WMF files:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

 

[JeepinEd]

Thanks, QuixoticOne, I'll check them out tonight.